On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Jason H <[email protected]> wrote: > A while back, I started a discussion about Creator's quoting policy. > There was a lot of support, and a few people were concerned about changing > the behavior that has been there since the beginning. > > However, I'm again tired of fighting with creator inserting "" when I type > " and deleting both when I backspace over one. This behavior only occurs in > QtCreator, and no other editor _ever_, and it needs to go. It is a "clever > trick" that costs more than it is clever. At least for me, YMMV. > > Yes, there is a checkbox, but that applies to brackets and braces as well. > > Fundamentally, I want to changes to the behavior: > 1. If the character after the cursor is not whitespace, do NOT double > quote ("") > 2. If backspacing over a double quote, do not remove both double quotes. > > For the love of all that is binary!!! > > It's way saner to disable this feature! ("Automatically insert matching characters") This is the first thing that I configure when I install a fresh Qt Creator (or any other text editor) on a new computer.
We software developers write text for a living, it is very wise to invest in touch typing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing> skills. I like the WYTIWYS (what you type is what you see) concept. Cheers, Cristian.
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