On Aug 23, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Torsten Bergmann wrote:
> 1. In Pharo if you expand a keyword message like #replaceAll:with:
> the cursor is set already to the first argument (so one can continue
> typing) but to enter the second argument one has to move left using
> arrow keys "manually".
> How often you have to move left is dependent on the size of the
> second word part of the message selector. Why not just TAB to set
> the cursor to the next argument.
I would love that
>
> 2. What I also really miss compared to other IDE's for completion
> are "custom completion templates". So in Eclipse by default
> there is a "sysout" template. It's enough to write "sys"
> and by expanding this ends up in
>
> System.out.println("")
>
> where the cursor is already between the double quotes
> to continue typing.
>
> The templates can be defined using placeholders and TAB
> brings you to the next one to be filled out.
>
> This video demonstrated this (at around 4:20):
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqXUMhRkn9g
>
> 3. AFAIK VisualWorks is modified to also have "non-Smalltalk" code
> on methods - so you can store resources on methods and the
> editor can be different depending on content type.
>
> I would like to see Pharo having a similar feature to better
> support non-Smalltalk content within the image.
>
> So one can imagine a styled CSS editor for Seaside resources
> with CSS tag completion, XML editor with completion depending
> on XSL type definitions, SQL editor with completion, ...
>
> Not that we should support all these completion types/grammars
> but at least have an open framework to plugin such mechanisms
> in custom editors/completions.
>
> I know this is a lot of work ... but as a suggestion we should
> discuss if this is a direction we want to go (or just have a
> good Smalltalk editor/completion).
:)
this is not that we do not have the vision and wishes :)
>
> Bye
> T.
>
