strange editor auto-replacements

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frank meyer

• January 31, 2013 19:05

Hi,

I would like to ask about a topic that keeps annoying me for long. When typing something while other characters are selected, the editor interprets this in a rather surprising way - at least to me...

To give an example. Suppose the C source line

if (a > b)

If I first select the '>' character, and then press '<' character, the editor changes this to

if (a <>> b)

In this case, I just want to replace '>' with '<'. I experienced plenty of other "own" ideas of the editor how to interpret keystrokes while characters/line(s) are marked.

How can I get the editor to break that habit ?

I'm using CrossWorks for ARM V 2.2.0.2012022100.14129, for both Winows and Linux.

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  Dr Danish Ali

  • February 07, 2013 12:14

  Crossworks for Arm 2.3.0.2012111600.16701 has an option

  Tools : Options... : Text Editor : Auto-Surround Text

  Setting this to "Disabled" seems to solve this annoying behaviour.

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  frank meyer

  • February 07, 2013 18:38

  I would try that, if only I had this option. I have V2.2, so this seems new in V2.3.

  Is there anything else that would suggest to update ? There is not so much to complain, except possibly the meagre stacksize default settings ...

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  Dr Danish Ali

  • February 08, 2013 10:20

  I can't think of any reason not to update. You can keep both on your machine.

  (As far as I know you don't have to pay to go from 2.x to 2.y).

  I didn't spot this change in the release notes, and it was only your comment that prompted me to look again for an option. I had been cursing the "feature" ever since I paid to upgrade from 1.7 to 2.2 (which I need because one upcoming project is likely to involve an stm32f4xx). But then I found a bug where certain files were not being rebuilt when project options were changed which Rowley fixed for 2.3.

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  frank meyer

  • February 08, 2013 17:08

  I can't think of any reason not to update.

  That sounds like from a salesman  ;-)

  But honestly, I guess there needs to be a certain level of suffering required for a desire to update. Like from Windows3.0 to Windows3.1, or so ...

  And that level is not reached for me by far. Having to deal with MPLabX for PIC18 (a NetBeans-based IDE for/from Microchip) in my day job, working with CrossWorks is a breeze for me. Well, except of those small editor annoyances.  Having once started with Z80 and CP/M, I can't get use to editors that try to be smarter than me.

  For an update, I'm going to check the release notes, maybe it's worthwile. Even using a private licence, I'd avoid changing a running system.

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