On Jan 8, 2014, at 8:50 PM, Sean Corfield wrote: > On Jan 8, 2014, at 3:38 PM, Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu> wrote: >> FWIW my perspective (esp as a teacher of newbies) it'd be nice if there was >> some sort of simple switch for this. It's sort of cumbersome to have to >> discover this, find the file, and add a bunch of code to get the keyboard to >> behave normally.... > > I suspect the majority of users think the default behavior is "normal" - and > desirable :)
Why would you suspect this? Conceivably it could be desirable (although I personally think it's awful), but "normal"? We all type all of the time in scores of applications and contexts, and in very few of them does the editor think it's smarter than us and add characters that we didn't ask for. (I guess there's autocorrect, but A: yuck, and B: this is different.) On the other hand, I'm a big fan of auto-indentation, so maybe my position isn't 100% consistent :-) Still, when writing Clojure something like half the characters you type will be brackets, which means that if your editor does the auto-insert-bracket thing then it's constantly doing something different from when you type in any other context, either adding a closing bracket that you didn't ask for or, when you type a closing bracket, sometimes typing it and sometimes not, depending on the context. For newbies, in particular, the idea that they should have to re-learn how to type on top of everything else that they have to learn doesn't strike me as particularly friendly. I do realize that tastes vary. But FWIW I wouldn't voluntarily use an environment with automatic bracket insertion, and I wouldn't want to foist it on my students either. So even if it's on by default, it would be important to me that it be easy to turn off. -Lee -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
