Re: [Pydev-code] Re: parentheses autocompletion

[Fabio Z. <fa...@gm...>]

I agree, number 1 seems the best choice for me too.

On 7/12/05, Karol Pietrzak (RIT Student) <ka...@ri...> wrote:
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> Fabio Zadrozny wrote:
>  > Waiting forward to see it... :-)
>  >
>  > p.s. I'm also forwarding it to the pydev mailing list
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>  I was thinking parentheses auto-completion in the context of tuples.  Th=
e
> Java Eclipse editor will remove empty parentheses if your cursor is betwe=
en
> them and you hit backspace. i.e.,
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>  something()
>            ^ cursor in between the parentheses, and you hit backspace
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>  ...you will get...
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>  something
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>  It's just one of those niceties that the Java editor gives you.  However=
,
> in Python, () is an empty tuple, and [] is an empty list.
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>  So what does everyone think would be the best way to approach this?  I s=
ee
> three ways so far (there's probably more).
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>  1. Like the Java editor, always delete the two parentheses if you have t=
he
> cursor between them.
>  2. Never delete the two parentheses.  Just delete the left parenthesis
> (current, simple behavior).
>  3. Sometimes delete the two parentheses, based on the context.  I'm not
> sure what kind of algorithm we could employ here because I couldn't think=
 of
> an example where I _wouldn't_ want the editor to delete both parentheses =
for
> me.
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>  (1) is easiest to implement and I think I prefer it, so if I get the go
> ahead I'll code that up.
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