Overwrite autocompleted braces, quotes, ...

[Samhayne]

I just downloaded PHP Editor and... I really love it.
For me it's much more usable than the overblasted, Eclipse (*blearch*) based Zend Studio.


A feature I'd really love to see is an overwriting of autocompleted )'s and "'s etc.

Like you have it in Whole Tomato's Visual Assist Plugin for Visual Studio.

You open a brace,

...foo(...

VS adds the closing brace with the cursor in the middle...

...foo(|) ...

you enter the parameter...

...foo(7|) ...

and by closing the brace manually you don't end up with

...foo(7)|) ...

but with

... foo(7)|...

as the closing brace is overwritten.


I think, the logic behind is simple: "You can't add a closing ')' while inside and at the end of two braces. => (bla bla bla bla |)


autocompleted braces and quotation marks are a great thing when entering long expressions...
but when entering short parameters it's (for my brain) much more intuitive to be able to type quickly (-7-) than (-7-END.



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Another point on my wishlist would be:

I'm an excessive user of autocomplete.
Reduced autocomplete delay to 0ms and... it's wonderful.


It would be just nice to see the cursor landing between the braces of a function after autocomplete when the function needs arguments.

massive_foo_function(|) instead of massive_foo_function()|



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Oh... and one more came in my mind:

No autocomplete while editing inside code.
Most of the time the popping second " is not what I want when editing a line...

[EvilBMP]

and by closing the brace manually you don't end up with

...foo(7)|) ...

but with

... foo(7)|...

as the closing brace is overwritten.

+1 for that

Imho, the auto-closing feature really could be pimped, so that a manually inserted closing ' or " or ) or ] or } just overwrites this closing char right next to the cursor. So even if you got used to type the closing char, you wouldn't end up with two closing chars.

I think the overblasted Eclipse does this by the default, if you want to have a look...

It would be just nice to see the cursor landing between the braces of a function after autocomplete when the function needs arguments.

massive_foo_function(|) instead of massive_foo_function()|

+1 from me

Nice idea

No autocomplete while editing inside code.
Most of the time the popping second " is not what I want when editing a line...

Sorry, I don't understand what you are meaning here

Greets Evil

[x3po]

+1

[Samhayne]

No autocomplete while editing inside code.
Most of the time the popping second " is not what I want when editing a line...

Sorry, I don't understand what you are meaning here

Greets Evil

Again... I stumble often over autocompleted ""s and ()s when editing a line.

WholeTomato's Visual Assist acts the following way:

When editing a line no closing braces are added when there's a character right of it.

Let's say we have:

foo| x

typing an opening bracer would result in:

foo()| x


with

foo |x

i get:

foo (|x



This comes in handy when you decide so make braces around an expression. Or quotation marks.

Most of the time when editing you wouldn't want

""|Text to put quotation marks around

having to delete the the autocompleted second "

But:

"|Text to put quotation marks around

[EvilBMP]

This comes in handy when you decide so make braces around an expression. Or quotation marks.

Nice suggestion - but this should only apply to normal text characters and not to control characters.

Because if I want to send a string to a function or want to get a specific value of an associative array, I really like the auto-complete.
In detail:

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$this->setLog|    // type (
$this->setLog(|)    // type '
$this->setLog('|')

$myArray|    // type [
$myArray[|]    // type '
$myArray['|']

And - as already mentioned - when I type the control character right next to the cursor (because I am used to, and my brain finger coordination has not deleted this behaviour right now), the cursor should jump over it.
in detail:

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$myArray['myKey|']    // type '
$myArray['myKey'|]    // type ]
$myArray['myKey']|

If there is not the same control character to the right, then it should be written - and then also only ones if I want to wrap some string (your suggested expression) or in short, the control structure is still open. But this is working already most of the time if I remember right.
In detail:

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'my tiny string or expression|    // type '
'my tiny string or expression'|

[Capricorn]

And - as already mentioned - when I type the control character right next to the cursor (because I am used to, and my brain finger coordination has not deleted this behaviour right now), the cursor should jump over it.
in detail:

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$myArray['myKey|']    // type '
$myArray['myKey'|]    // type ]
$myArray['myKey']|

If there is not the same control character to the right, then it should be written - and then also only ones if I want to wrap some string (your suggested expression) or in short, the control structure is still open. But this is working already most of the time if I remember right.
In detail:

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'my tiny string or expression|    // type '
'my tiny string or expression'|

I know it's a little bit old, but +1 for that because it's not included right now.

I often get things like

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foofunction("sdsasaddad")");

because I'm used to write the end of a function sometimes.

Please add, thanks.

Capricorn