[TxMt] Smart typing question

[Brad Choate]

It would be most helpful if TextMate would track this a little better...

When I type a smart pair key, TM should take note of the position of  
the closing character. If I type additional smart pair keys, it keeps  
track of each position. These positions are kept as long as I'm on  
that line. If I navigate away, the list is lost. Hitting the tab key  
would take me to the last position recorded. Tabbing again would go  
to the next, etc.

	So, typing "(", would yield (numbers are used to show tab positions,  
in order of where you'd go next if hitting the tab key; "|" is the  
caret position):

		(|)1

	Then, typing ":

		("|"1)2

	Then typing "Testing"

		("Testing|"1)2

	Then hitting tab:

		("Testing"|)1

	Then typing ", 10":

		("Testing", 10|)1

	Then hitting tab:

		("Testing", 10)|

That feels rather natural to me. Maybe tab isn't the right key since  
it could have side effects with other tab triggers... I'm not sure  
what would be a better alternative though.

-Brad


On May 16, 2006, at 5:34 PM, John Tsombakos wrote:

> On 5/16/06, Oscar Bonilla <ob at bitmover.com> wrote:
>> On May 16, 2006, at 5:04 PM, John Tsombakos wrote:
>>
>> > Am I missing some simple navigation? It's a simple thing that's  
>> making
>> > my want to turn off Smart typing.
>>
>> What I usually do is hit Ctrl-e (go to end-of-line). Saves me n-1
>> keystrokes where n is the number of smart typed characters I entered.
>
> Hm. That'd work. As long as what I just typed is on the end of the  
> line ;)
>
> If I typed td then did control - < to automatically enter the
> <td></td> tags then continued to type style=" .. hitting Ctrl-e would
> go to the very end. Oh well, I thought there may be a "jump out of the
> current "smart typing space" " keystroke that I missed :)
>
> Thanks
>
> jt
>
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