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

[Cristian Adam]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com> 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!!!
>
>
It's way saner to disable this feature! ("Automatically insert matching
characters")
This is the first thing that I configure when I install a fresh Qt Creator
(or any other text editor)
on a new computer.

We software developers write text for a living, it is very wise to invest
in touch typing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing> skills.

I like the WYTIWYS (what you type is what you see) concept.

Cheers,
Cristian.
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