Re: a better auto completion with automatic first letter upper case, :)

2010-02-07 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 08:02 -0700 on 02/07/2010, le...@gmail wrote about Re: a better auto completion with automatic first letter up: On 6-Feb-2010, at 19:26, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: The point I was making is that you would be starting a sentence by typing an upper case letter and the correct IMO way for the

Re: a better auto completion with automatic first letter upper case, :)

2010-02-07 Thread le...@gmail
On 6-Feb-2010, at 19:26, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: The point I was making is that you would be starting a sentence by typing an upper case letter and the correct IMO way for the word you are typing to be completed is to preserve the case you supply (not to figure out what case it should be

Re: a better auto completion with automatic first letter upper case, :)

2010-02-06 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 11:56 -0800 on 02/06/2010, junqin wrote about Re: a better auto completion with automatic first letter up: Thanks Robert for the quick reply. Would it be possible that BBEdit recognize the start of a sentence? If so, let this part of code works with the part of auto completion would, in my

Re: a better auto completion with automatic first letter upper case, :)

2010-02-06 Thread Steve Piercy
On Feb 6, 11:56 am, junqin wrote: > Would it be possible that BBEdit recognize the start of a sentence? If > so, let this part of code works with the part of auto completion > would, in my opinion, give the correct case automatically ( I do not > really mean to type the correct case by myself when

Re: a better auto completion with automatic first letter upper case, :)

2010-02-06 Thread junqin
start a sentence ... ). Of course, this should be configurable, otherwise people who do not want to make the first letter upper case may find this feature is very annoying . On Feb 6, 8:18 pm, "Robert A. Rosenberg" wrote: > At 01:47 -0800 on 02/06/2010, junqin wrote about a better auto

Re: a better auto completion with automatic first letter upper case, :)

2010-02-06 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 01:47 -0800 on 02/06/2010, junqin wrote about a better auto completion with automatic first letter upper : The auto completion of BBEdit is good. But if I am writing the first word of a sentence, and there is a word matching what I typed however with first letter being lower case pop up, by

a better auto completion with automatic first letter upper case, :)

2010-02-06 Thread junqin
The auto completion of BBEdit is good. But if I am writing the first word of a sentence, and there is a word matching what I typed however with first letter being lower case pop up, by selecting this word, BBEdit will put the lower case word there, I have to change the first letter to upper case a

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-04 Thread Steve Kalkwarf
On Dec 4, 2009, at 2:27 AM, stratboy wrote: > I agree. Also, the factory clippings should be versioned, so one can > see if he has the last version. If you stop to think for a second, that's impossible. I can tell what version BBEdit once wrote into the directory (in fact, shipping BBEdit's do

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-03 Thread stratboy
I agree. Also, the factory clippings should be versioned, so one can see if he has the last version. On 3 Dic, 21:37, RobS wrote: > On Dec 3, 1:46 pm, Rich Siegel wrote: > > > The subsystem that makes that decision looks at the existing > > contents of your various Application Support/BBEdit/ su

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-03 Thread stratboy
To the devs: if the factory clippings are undated, well, they should really be versioned some way. On 3 Dic, 17:27, RobS wrote: > Thanks to Stoney Ballard's hint I too downloaded the new Clippings set > from barebones.com and am now getting the correct results. This is > going to be very handy. >

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-03 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good afternoon, On 3/12/09 at 12:37 PM -0800, RobS wrote: >BBEdit users are the most likely kind of users to modify things like >the Clippings folder. I would guess that the majority of users did not >get the current Clippings folder because their old one contained >modified files. The installer

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-03 Thread tedmasterweb
On Dec 3, 5:36 pm, RobS wrote: > On Dec 3, 12:44 pm, Steve Piercy wrote: > > > From where did you download HTML.html? I am also missing this clipping > > set, and I cannot find it on BB's site. > > http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/clippings_library.html > > Select the first one, called BBE

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-03 Thread RobS
On Dec 3, 1:46 pm, Rich Siegel wrote: > The subsystem that makes that decision looks at the existing > contents of your various Application Support/BBEdit/ subfolders, > and if they line up, the subfolder gets updated. So if your > Clippings have been modified, it'll skip the update. Computers be

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-03 Thread Steve Piercy
On Dec 3, 9:36 am, RobS wrote: > On Dec 3, 12:44 pm, Steve Piercy wrote: > > > From where did you download HTML.html? I am also missing this clipping > > set, and I cannot find it on BB's site. > > http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/clippings_library.html > > Select the first one, called BBE

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-03 Thread Rich Siegel
On 12/3/09 at 11:27 AM, rsteven...@accesscable.net (RobS) wrote: >Q1 - what conditions will cause the update to fail to install the new >Clippings folder? The subsystem that makes that decision looks at the existing contents of your various Application Support/BBEdit/ subfolders, and if they li

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-03 Thread RobS
On Dec 3, 12:44 pm, Steve Piercy wrote: > From where did you download HTML.html? I am also missing this clipping > set, and I cannot find it on BB's site. http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/clippings_library.html Select the first one, called BBEdit 9 Default Clippings Rob -- You received

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-03 Thread Steve Piercy
On Dec 3, 8:07 am, Stoney Ballard wrote: > On Dec 3, 10:06 am, Kerri Hicks wrote: > ... > > > What version of BBEdit are you using? The instructions above should > > work in BBEdit 9.x (and I *think* 8.x, too). > > This didn't work for me either. I discovered that the HTML clippings > were missin

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-03 Thread RobS
Thanks to Stoney Ballard's hint I too downloaded the new Clippings set from barebones.com and am now getting the correct results. This is going to be very handy. The barebones site says, "These are the factory default clippings supplied with BBEdit 9. BBEdit will automatically update your installe

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-03 Thread RobS
BBedit 9.3 Command-d brings up the Open File By Name dialog. "Complete" is set to F5 in Prefs. When I do that I get "No completions available." I rarely make changes to the commandkey equivalents, so I suspect the results I mention above are the defaults. Rob -- You received this message beca

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-03 Thread Stoney Ballard
On Dec 3, 10:06 am, Kerri Hicks wrote: ... > What version of BBEdit are you using? The instructions above should > work in BBEdit 9.x (and I *think* 8.x, too). This didn't work for me either. I discovered that the HTML clippings were missing. I had "HTML Glossary.html", but not "HTML.html". I d

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-03 Thread Kerri Hicks
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:00 AM, RobS wrote: > On Dec 2, 8:01 pm, Alex Satrapa wrote: >> As an example of the tag, simply do this in BBEdit: >> 1) In preferences -> Editing: General, set "Show text completions" to be >> "After a delay in typing" >> 2) Select File->New->HTML Document >> 3) In the

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-03 Thread RobS
On Dec 2, 8:01 pm, Alex Satrapa wrote: > As an example of the tag, simply do this in BBEdit: > 1) In preferences -> Editing: General, set "Show text completions" to be > "After a delay in typing" > 2) Select File->New->HTML Document > 3) In the document, start typing p_class > 4) press TAB > 5)

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-02 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 02/12/2009, at 15:53 , Charlie Garrison wrote: > On 1/12/09 at 5:25 PM -0700, le...@gmail wrote: > >> There's really no reason for an editor not to automatically add >> "" when I type "" when I type " > I must be missing something magical from other programs. Don't > clippings achieve that

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-01 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good afternoon, On 1/12/09 at 5:25 PM -0700, le...@gmail wrote: >There's really no reason for an editor not to automatically add >"" when I type "" when I type " 〠 PO Box 141, Windsor, NSW 2756, Australia O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org http://www.ietf.org/r

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-01 Thread le...@gmail
On 30-Nov-2009, at 23:51, Bucky Junior wrote: > If someone prefers auto-closing tags, they could easily create > clippings to do that and assign them to keystrokes. The same with CSS > values for options. Put in the values and choices that you want to see > rather than someone else's choices.

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-01 Thread Dennis
On Nov 30, 12:13 am, stratboy wrote: > - auto-closing html tags. Have you tried BBEdit's "Markup -> Close Current Tag" command? Assign a keyboard shortcut (if it doesn't have one by default) and you've got something very similar to auto-closing except that *you* control if and when it's triggered

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-01 Thread Kerri Hicks
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:11 AM, stratboy wrote: > I used bbedit for 10 years, since mac os 8.5... > I'm an experieced xhtml / javascript / actionscript programmer and a > web designer. I know what I say. I haven't been using BBEdit that long, but I've been hand-coding for decades. I've used bot

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-12-01 Thread stratboy
My message was to the developers. I used bbedit for 10 years, since mac os 8.5... I'm an experieced xhtml / javascript / actionscript programmer and a web designer. I know what I say. If the competitors make some choices, maybe there are reasons. And if new competitors rapidly gain such a success

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-11-30 Thread Bucky Junior
more you learn about how to control the computer/program's behavior, the less you want it to control yours. Best wishes, bucky On Nov 30, 2009, at 4:48 PM, William Reveal wrote: > On Nov 30, 2009, at 2:13 AM, stratboy wrote: > >> Hi, there are 2 main things I think you could c

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-11-30 Thread William Reveal
or, even TextExpander and do it in the way I want and not the way a programmer decides (and it would probably be some Emacs thing, yuck! ). Bill I hate all computers, I just hate the Macintosh the least. On Nov 30, 2009, at 2:13 AM, stratboy wrote: > Hi, there are 2 main things I think

Re: a better auto completion? :)

2009-11-30 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good evening, On 30/11/09 at 12:13 AM -0800, stratboy wrote: >- hints for css values. They really lack. And since they're simply >language syntax, they shouldn't be made by the coder via clippings. I >mean: if I write for example, 'font-weight', I'm expecting to see >hints for 'bold' and 'norma

a better auto completion? :)

2009-11-30 Thread stratboy
Hi, there are 2 main things I think you could consider to make a better auto completion: - auto-closing html tags. Just like dreamweaver or coda. There are really no reasons for not closing a tag immediately after writing it. Also the are really no reasons for letting the coder doing it for