Automagic string completion isn't quite useful

  • The Script Editor dialog, where one enters JavaScript for controls, automagically inserts closing quotes when an opening quote is typed. This is a Good Thing! ™- But it’s not “smart”; if I type an opening quote, type some text, then type a closing quote, I would expect something like this:

“I’m some text”

Instead I get this:

“I’m some text”“”

This is unusable. Eclipse, when not using DDE, is “smart” about quotes, parens, braces, etc; not perfect, but it tries pretty hard. This dialog is “dumb”, in that it doesn’t appear to care what’s come before, only that typing a quote means put in two of them no matter what.

  • The workaround, of course is to disable this feature entirely. Now if I could just get tool tips to go away so easily.

  • Thanks for your time…