How I learned to love and use auto quotes & parentheses with LC 9 DP11

[Brian Milby]

One other useful tidbit is that it will skip over the ending quote if you
type it... so when you type “ and get “|”, you can type “text|” and then
the next quote will skip over the automatically added one. (“|” is the
insertion point)
On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 8:09 AM Martin Koob via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Maybe I am the last person to know this but if you don't this may be
> helpful.
>
> I was getting frustrated with the new feature that automatically puts the
> end quote when you type the initial  quote.
>
> It works fine if you are typing the initial quote first and then the text
> contained within the quote.
> i.e. if I wanted to type myCleverFunction("my string")
>
> when I type
>
>   myCleverFunction(
>
> script editor would complete the parentheses  to give you
>
>    myCleverFunction()
>
> with the cursor between the parentheses.
>
> Then when I type an initial quote and I would get
>
> myCleverFunction("")
>
> with my cursor between the quotes so I could type the text in the quotes.
> So
> that works great.
>
> What would drive me nuts was if I had to go back in a line of script after
> it had been typed and add quotes or parentheses around some text already
> there.
>
> If I typed an initial quote I would get this:
>
>  ""put in quotes
>
> Instead of what I wanted:
>
>  "put in quotes
>
> So I would have to delete one of the quotes then put my cursor at the end
> of
> the string and type the quote and again get this.
>
>  "put in quotes""
>
> Again I have to delete one of the quotes.
>
> Then by accident I found how you are actually supposed to do it.
>
> Select the text  'put in quotes' then type the quote and the quotes will be
> put at the beginning and end of the selection.
>
> The same works for open parenthesis '(' and open square bracket '['.
>
> That saves a keystroke and some mousing around to get the second quote
> insertion point over the old way with out the auto complete.
>
> I did a quick search but could not find this in the documentation so
> thought
> I would post that epiphany here.
>
> Happy quoting.
>
> Martin Koob
>
>
>
>
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