Jon Pretty

Does anyone else seem to spend 50x more time deleting characters like ", } and ) which their IDE inserts automatically, than they save not having to type them on the fewer occasions they get inserted in the right place? Or is it just me?

back before this feature became ubiquitous i made a separate binding for my editor to insert matched pairs of characters (quotes, parens, etc.) so i only got this behavior when i asked for it. the unconditional auto-insertion is really annoying.

That's neat. One day, when I don't have higher priorities, I envisage myself customizing my editor with a bunch of changes like this...

You’re not fooling anyone, you’re itching to write your own editor, Candelabre, aren’t you.