GUI Editor?

[Pete Prodoehl]

Nothing like being late ;)

In jEdit <http://jedit.org/> I created the following abbreviation:

  Abbreviation: if

  Text to insert before caret: if (

  Text to insert after caret: ) {
	
  }

The result is  that when I type if<space> jEdit inserts

  if () {
	
  }

with the cursor between the ()'s

I believe this is what you asked for.

Not that I did not create a macro (though jEdit has those) I just 
created an abbreviation that will be expanded upon typing if<space>.

It took me about a minute... much less time than it took to write this 
email... ;)


Pete


Riley Berton wrote:
> Editors that run under X are generally very good.  However, I have always had one gripe:  the lack of useful macro expansion.  On all editors that I have looked at (and they are numerous) I have yet to see "space bar" expansion of macros so that the usage of macros is easier than just typing out the contents of the macro.  For instance, if I wanted to produce this:
> 
> if ( <cursor should end up here> ) {
> 
> }
> 
> and wanted to use a macro to do it, I would need to bind that sequence to some weird (usually unconfigurable) key combination, making it just as much as a PITA as typing it in the first place.
> 
> Ideally, an editor should be able to figure out what I mean based on a few user preset macros and the "space bar" would expand the macro, so that typing:
> 
> if<space>
> 
> would result in my example above.  I have been searching for this feature for quite some time in many editors.  
> 
> I currently use NEdit and was able to write a macro for that editor that used the space bar as it's key, however, it ran very slowly and made the editor less responsive so I had to turn it off.
> 
> Does anyone out there know of an 'X' based editor that does what I outlined?
> 
> riley