[Qt-creator] It's time to fix double redundant quotes

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 03:49:53 CET 2016


On 09/03/16 00:10, Jason H wrote:
> A while back, I started a discussion about Creator's quoting policy.  There was a lot of support, and a few people were concerned about changing the behavior that has been there since the beginning.
>
> However, I'm again tired of fighting with creator inserting "" when I type " and deleting both when I backspace over one. This behavior only occurs in QtCreator, and no other editor _ever_, and it needs to go. It is a "clever trick" that costs more than it is clever. At least for me, YMMV.
>
> Yes, there is a checkbox, but that applies to brackets and braces as well.
>
> Fundamentally, I want to changes to the behavior:
> 1. If the character after the cursor is not whitespace, do NOT double quote ("")
> 2. If backspacing over a double quote, do not remove both double quotes.
>
> For the love of all that is binary!!!

Wait, it's not a bug? They actually want that behavior?

lol :-P




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