Auto-completing Brackets and Quotations

[Cerpin Taxt]

Hello all.
I'm demoing UEStudio, and I'm having a lot of trouble getting it to do some simple things.

When I type a left bracket, left paren, or single/double quote, I'd like it to type the opposing symbol and put my caret in the center of the two, like this:

Typing

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{


causes

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{|}


to occur. It would seem that the Advanced Configuration setting "Auto Complete One-Symbol List" would do this, but checking it does not cause it to work. Is there something I can place in my configuration file to allow this to work?

[Guest]

i'd love this too

[Mofi]

Instead of using auto-complete, you can do this with a set of macros saved in a macro file which is automatically loaded during start of UEStudio. For example the macro for {:

Macro property:

Cancel Dialog = FALSE
Find with Replace = FALSE
Hotkey = ALT+CTRL+7

On a German keyboard ALT+CTRL+7 must be entered for {. Simply press the key for { in the macro property dialog to get correct keyboard code for your keyboard.

Macro code:

IfExtIs "c"
"{}"
Key LEFT ARROW
ExitMacro
EndIf
IfExtIs "cpp"
"{}"
Key LEFT ARROW
ExitMacro
EndIf
IfExtIs "h"
"{}"
Key LEFT ARROW
ExitMacro
EndIf
"{"

I mainly use this technique for inserting german umlauts according to extension. For example for Ä:

Cancel Dialog = FALSE
Find with Replace = FALSE
Hotkey = SHIFT+Ä

IfExtIs "html"
"Ä"
ExitMacro
EndIf
IfExtIs "htm"
"Ä"
ExitMacro
EndIf
IfExtIs "asm"
"Ae"
ExitMacro
EndIf
IfExtIs "c"
"Ae"
ExitMacro
EndIf
IfExtIs "h"
"Ae"
ExitMacro
EndIf
IfExtIs "inc"
"Ae"
ExitMacro
EndIf
"Ä"

[cocentaina]

this is great. these are my macros for completion of the following chars: ", ', (, [, {

""""
Key LEFT ARROW

"''"
Key LEFT ARROW

"()"
Key LEFT ARROW

"[]"
Key LEFT ARROW

"{}"
Key LEFT ARROW

Hotkeys are ", ', (, [, {. Very simple, very useful.

Now the only thing I need is snippet expansion like in TextMate - expand a keyword+<tab> to a snipper. For example, when you type

inc<tab>

you get:

#include "|.h"

[Mofi]

Similar to "snippet expansion" is Auto Completion which can be by default activated with CTRL+SPACE after entering for example #inc. See help of UEStudio about Auto Completion. But it is not possible to insert a phrase with auto completion and set the cursor automatically anywhere inside the phrase. The cursor will be always at the end of the auto-completed string. Using templates and macros could help here also for certain phrases which are used very often.