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Double space inserts a period on Mac, confusing users

Open microbit-matt-hillsdon opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

This is a Mac system option but very confusing in a coding context.

Can we avoid it?

@microbit-katie's original report:

Is there a way to add an in-line comment without needing to manually delete the period that auto populates? I tried it twice thinking it would sense that I didn’t want the period and stop auto-populating it (like Word formatting), but in the end had to manually delete the period after typing out my hash.

microbit-matt-hillsdon avatar Feb 02 '22 15:02 microbit-matt-hillsdon

Previously raised here: https://github.com/microbit-foundation/python-editor-next/issues/71

Raised on the CodeMirror repo here: https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror/issues/6401

microbit-robert avatar Feb 02 '22 16:02 microbit-robert

There's a slightly scary workaround suggested on the CM issue above. No real fix is possible.

microbit-matt-hillsdon avatar Oct 06 '22 09:10 microbit-matt-hillsdon