[TxMt] Re: I must be missing something obvious

Jacob Rus jrus at hcs.harvard.edu
Sat Apr 14 00:23:49 UTC 2007


Paul Welty wrote:
> So my cursor (|) ends up like this
> 
> blah['|']
> 
> I guess it's trying to help me. So, I type 'name' and my cursor is now 
> like this
> 
> blah['name|']
> 
> So, now what do I do???
> 
> I want keep typing. I want to get outside the ']', not inside it. But, I 
> can't figure out how. Right now, I just hit right arrow twice. But, this 
> is such a pain, it can't be right. What am I missing?

What is wrong with just typing the closing characters, again?

The point of smart typing pairs is more to keep your parentheses (or 
whatever) properly nested, than it is to save keystrokes.




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