[TxMt] Smart typing question

[David Powers]

The big savings of smart pairs is not that it saves you typing (it can 
in some cases, but that is beside the point).  The big savings is that 
it prevents you from leaving something that should be closed open by 
accident.

-David

Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
>
> On May 16, 2006, at 7:34 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 :)
>
> I use smart-typing more when I do something with a selection, like 
> select a word and type " to have it quoted, or to parenthesize 
> selection. Same with parentheses. But when just writing a new line I 
> just type over the characters, or press cmd-right arrow or something 
> like that.
>
> Of course there's also the EOL+LF commands from the source bundle. And 
> the smart navigation commands with the impossible names that people 
> have written lately.
>
> I guess it really depends where you want to go after having just 
> filled in. It's not necessarily the case that you want to move 
> forward, and if you don't need to move forward you've saved yourself a 
> keystroke.
>> Thanks
>>
>> jt
>
> Haris
>
>
>
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