[TxMt] smart typing - can it be smarter or type less? :)

[Paul Bissex]

On 12/3/05, porneL <textmate at pornel.net> wrote:
>
> I generally like smart typing feature, but it gets in the way sometimes.
>
> For example if I want to add parens around expression, I often just get ()
> before it (if expression starts with ! or $).

For this, you can select the expression and then just type a left paren.

> It's horror when I need to change double quotes to single quotes. I end up
> having something like: "'""'"
>
> Is it possible to configure it to work only when there is whitespace/EOL
> ahead of cursor? Or to disable it for cases I mentioned above?
> I don't want to disable it completly and I don't want to add symbols to
> word characters list.

This one bites me fairly often, and unlike the parens doesn't have an
easy workaround that I'm aware of. I like the idea of having Smart
Typing being more selective when it comes to quotation marks.

Other ideas or workarounds, anyone?

pb


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