Type anything to escape from Code Snippet session

Hi Xinen,

Thanks for the suggestion.  That is a good idea and we'll add it for the next maintenance release.

Thanks!

Hi Actipro, I've tried it on your test build and have a small suggestion - for Visual Studio, it exits from the code snippet session once we type outside the } ending close brace for the code snippet. For your build, it only exits when we type on a line after the last line of the code snippet. Would it be possible to exit once we type outside the code snippet region, i.e. right after the last character of the code snippet (e.g. })? and right before the first character, e.g. 'for' keyword.

Hi Xinen,

I just tested it in VS 2015 and our implementation of this works the exact same.  Both VS and SyntaxEditor allow typing at the first character (before the 'f' in 'for') and after the last character '}' without canceling the code snippet session.  If you type before the character before the 'f' or after the character after the '}' then both will cancel the session.

Hi Actipro,

I've been trying this on the test build and have some unexpected behavior when it comes to multiple views. I have multiple views of the same document. When I open a code snippet on View 1 and type on another View 2 in an area out of the code snippet text, the code snippet session in View 1 is closed. This is rather unexpected for the user as I would not expect typing in View 2 to affect View 1's code snippet. If we compare to selection, typing in View 2 does not affect the selection in View 1.

Is is possible to implement it at the view level instead of document level so that the views don't affect one another?

Hi Xinen,

We will add some code for the next maintenance release that checks to see if the editor's ActiveView is the one in which the code snippet template session is active, and only close when text changes occur outside of the template session in that case.

ok sounds good. Will that be in 634?

Yes.

Hi Actipro

It seems like this has not been fixed - typing in View 2 will still affect View 1's code snippet.

Hello,

I just tested this and don't see any problems.  All the updates described above seem to be in place.  Please give specific detail on what you are seeing and we'll have a look.  Thanks!

Hi Actipro,

Sorry I wasn't clear on what I was doing. When I said multiple views, I actually meant that I have multiple Syntax Editors, each showing a view of the same document. Not just different split views in one editor. So I have multiple windows, each with its own SyntaxEditor, but all sharing the same document.

Hence each of my editors will still think they are the "ActiveView". We need a way to ensure only the editor with keyboard focus will exit its code snippet session.

I've tried adding an extra check for 'this.View.HasFocus()' in addition to the 'ActiveView == this.View' check and it worked for me perfectly. Could you add that in please?

Hi Xinen,

Ok we will add that check too.

Thanks!