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williamx
Junior Member
China
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 Posted - Feb 09 2004 : 10:26:09 PM
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this feature in va is work well but it seems to be discarded in vax?
would it be added into the later version? |
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Whole Tomato Software
5566 Posts |
Posted - Feb 10 2004 : 01:01:36 AM
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| We discontinued surrounding on " and ' -- too many problems getting it just right. Though you liked the feature, few others did. We do not expect to resurrect the feature any time soon. |
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xMRi
Tomato Guru
Germany
315 Posts |
Posted - Feb 17 2004 : 02:20:59 AM
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I liked this feature too. I thought that it worked good. You never can make everything right, but it helped!
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Martin Richter [rMVP] WWJD http://blog.m-ri.de
"A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly written
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Stephen
Tomato Guru
United Kingdom
781 Posts |
Posted - Feb 17 2004 : 04:31:01 AM
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I'm surprised that you liked that feature. When did you ever have a bare word that you wanted to turn into a string, or vice versa?
Personally, I don't like surround selection on parenthesis either. It's too common to select something, and try and overwrite it with something starting with a parenthesis, which doesn't do the right thing. I wouldn't mind losing parenthesis, or making surround selection only work on whole lines not parts of lines: but I expect other people would disagree with me here.
Of course, the WT team could make it so that we could turn each surround selection character on and off individually, but it's perhaps a bit too much option bloat.
Here is the previous thread on this topic, by the way: http://forum.wholetomato.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=787 |
Stephen Turner
ClickTracks http://www.clicktracks.com/
Winner: ClickZ's Best Web Analytics Tool 2003 & 2004
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dodudo7
Ketchup Master
Israel
55 Posts |
Posted - Feb 18 2004 : 2:25:35 PM
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Surrounding selection with parenthesis is an awesome feature! I hope very much that you do not
intend to remove it.
For those who don't like this feature it can be easily disabled. Why remove a feature which,
if I'm not wrong, it isn't even on by default? |
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Stephen
Tomato Guru
United Kingdom
781 Posts |
Posted - Feb 19 2004 : 04:10:00 AM
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Don't worry. I said that I didn't like it, but I don't think it should be removed because other people wouldn't agree with me. Or did you think I was an employee of Whole Tomato because I'm a "Tomato Guru"? -- that only means I spend too much time in these forums!
It can't be disabled by people who don't like it, though. Not without also disabling surround selection on comments and braces, which I use a lot. |
Stephen Turner
ClickTracks http://www.clicktracks.com/
Winner: ClickZ's Best Web Analytics Tool 2003 & 2004
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Stephen
Tomato Guru
United Kingdom
781 Posts |
Posted - Feb 19 2004 : 04:27:35 AM
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| PS I'd still be interested to know in what circumstances people found surround-on-quotes useful. Just for my own curiosity, you understand. |
Stephen Turner
ClickTracks http://www.clicktracks.com/
Winner: ClickZ's Best Web Analytics Tool 2003 & 2004
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Whole Tomato Software
5566 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2004 : 03:50:08 AM
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Stephen's assumption is correct. We don't have separate options for surrounding of {, (, ... to avoid option bloat.
Press UNDO when surrounding is not what you intended. |
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