On 2023-03-16, Thomas Passin <li...@tompassin.net> wrote: > In general, I don't like a lot of popups and code completions, so I > tend to avoid them. I don't even like automatic parens or brace > insertion.
I _hate_ it when the "editor" decides to insert stuff I didn't type. There's an html editor I use occasionally that auto-inserts the closing tag when you type an opening tag. It's, always, 100% of the time, wrong. Either the tag ends up in the wrong place, or it's a duplicate because there was already a closing tag. > They distract me, and often put the cursor somewhere I don't want it. Maybe it matters how good a typist you are, but I don't really concentrate that hard on watching the letters show up on the screen, so any sort of "IDE know better than you do" stuff tends to trip me up. > Of course, for Python code I do like automatic indentation after a > colon: if the cursor ends up in the right place, then I'm happy. Yep, I do allow emacs to do auto indent. > If I'm using a plain editor, then I usually like EditPlus. It's not > free but the cost is low and it's well worth it (but Windows only). > It knows about file types, and can do various insertions and > completions if you want (as I said, I mostly don't). I also use > Notepad++, but I more often go with EditPlus. > > What I find more useful is matching brackets/parens/braces. Not > inserting them but highlighting or (better) jumping to the matching one > when asked. Same here. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
