On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > > Tom Boothby wrote: >> Working with the limited tools at my disposal (this will all go away >> with BeSpin, if they know what they're doing), I introduce a hotkey >> which finds the first open paren / brace / bracket and closes it at >> your current cursor location: >> >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3646 >> >> This is *almost* done. For some reason, I didn't see J. Palmieri's >> most recent reply until now, but there's a very easy fix. >> >> The problem with your suggestion is that highlighting something in a >> cell is rather difficult since we use textareas and not franken-divs >> as you see in the WSYIWYG html editors. We've tried to use a few of >> those, but they have way too much CPU / RAM overhead. We played with >> the emacs (?) style where the cursor jumps to the paren for a >> half-second or so, but this was rife with problems, too. >> \ > > What about changing it for half a second or so to some character, like > &? In a sense, think of it as highlighting. So when you cursor over a > closing parenthesis, the opening one changes briefly to an & to let you > know where it is. > > This might be a horrible idea---I'm just throwing it out there in the > interest of brainstorming.
My first interpretation of the idea was "oh that's terrible", but on re-reading, it might be OK. That said, I *really* hate things that interrupt the flow of typing. AFAIK, console apps get around this by buffering the input, and crapping it out all at once after the highlighting is done -- this is much harder in the browser where we don't have explicit control over every key. > > That said, I would *really* like to eventually support the > "franken-divs". That would open up lots and lots of possibilities. I > know we've tried various content-editable divs for text cells > unsuccessfully. Maybe our own very-lightweight solution would be best. > > How do you see BeSpin changing things? Isn't that pretty heavy-weight? I was hoping that since it's done by mozilla devs, that it would be lightweight enough for us to use. > > Jason > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
