It would be great to see my little mod integrated!
As I said the code is quite crude. I thought about moving the subs in a cfg
but was not sure of the correct way of doing it. Still I'm not sure if that
would really help since the language seems pretty stable and in any case the
most basic and often used "bricks" are not going to change any time soon.

tp3 wrote

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Got it!
What about integrating the mod as-is and adding the external cfg in the
near future?
(A bit greedy for having the abbrevs on my windows machine; trying hard to
recompile for windows)

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I can type "cube([" faster than I can type "c" and then some bizarre key
combination.  I am pleased that this feels like progress to some of you,
but for me, it is just awkward.  I am not a complex-shortcut-key kind of
a guy (but recognize that many of you are).  So.  Are there other
options, such as a simpler key (like <escape>) or a delay?

Thanks for listening!

Jon

On 6/8/2016 8:43 AM, Torsten Paul wrote:

I wouldn't define CTRL+B as a bizarre shortcut. Not more than the standard
copy CTRL+C and surely less than CTRL+SHIFT+F that OpenSCAD already uses
for replace. The expansion is actually accessible via the menu (which lists
the shortcut so that one can learn it for the next time).
Il will become even less bizarre since 90%+ of the constructs are
expandable that way; hence a very frequent use of the shortcut.
In terms of speed the right comparison is for cube([]);<left><left>left>
(not 6 keystrokes but 12). And it is even more evident for intersection (2
keystrokes against 20+).
I chose the keystroke because Scite already uses the same. ESC would be
nice but seems a bit nonstandard/dangerous to me. A timeout would be
definitely not desirable for most users  I'm afraid.
A possible alternative would be the combo CTRL+SPACE, which some editors
use for keyword completion. But it still is as "complex" as the current one
(although the space key is bigger and therefore easier to hit).
The occasional OpenSCAD users probably won't gain anything from
abbreviations, but people who spend a few hours with the editor would
probably benefit.

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Jon's response is why we need a separate config file, in order for this to
be useable. This is a power user feature, and power users like to configure
things.

My keyboard layout is obviously different from Jon's, since I can type
ctrl-B far more easily than hit Esc. I would personally prefer Tab for
keyword expansion, since I'm already used to that from using the bash shell.

On 8 June 2016 at 09:30, jon jon@jonbondy.com wrote:

An external cfg is not a problem for me;I'd be glad to implement it (or
even better steal the implementation from Scite)

But a configurable shortcut modifiable by the settings page is something
that goes beyond my knowledge of the Qt environment and OpenSCAD source
code.

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On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 09:57:42AM -0400, doug moen wrote:

I'm used to "left-alt - / " to do the expansion. It expands what I've
typed so far to the closest matching string. So while editing openscad
stuff, c<leftalt-/> will probably expand to cube. Alas, not the
parentheses and brackets. To explain this some more: cl<leftalt-/>
will expand to "closest". because its' there 4 lines up.

If there is a shortcut I think I'd like alt-C to be say cube([]) with
after this the cursor inside the brackets.... Problem is that
cylinders start with a c too. :-(

IMHO, when you work with openscad, you use the primitives to make
modules you use. So quickly after starting a project you're no longer
using cubes and cylinders but higher level objects that you defined...

Roger. 

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