I have a dumb editor question.

[Zoot]

With the default setting to auto add closing brackets and quotes, is there any magic way to skip to just past the nearest auto-added closing quote or bracket? I always turn the setting off because moving the cursor is maddeningly difficult compared to just manually inserting the closing character myself.

Since all editors love to do this these days, I wonder if there’s some secret way to skip past them that I’ve just never gotten the memo on lol.

[omz]

@Zoot You can skip the closing bracket by typing it.

[cvp]

@Zoot for the fun, you could try this little script that you can run as a tool. So you will have a supplementary row with only one key (or more) which skips automatically the cursor after first closing ' or " or ) or ] or }

The @omz solution only works if the cursor is just before the closing character but this tool also works if the cursor is several positions before the closing character.

Edit : the script, as a Pythonista tool, has to be run once for each new editor tab.

import editor
from   objc_util import *
import ui

def key_pressed(sender):
	tv = sender.objc_instance.firstResponder()	# associated TextView
	# get actual cursor position					
	cursor = tv.offsetFromPosition_toPosition_(tv.beginningOfDocument(), tv.selectedTextRange().start())
	if sender.name == 'after':
		# skip to just past the nearest auto-added closing ' or " or } or ] or )
		while True:
			if cursor == (len(str(tv.text()))-1):
				return
			t = str(tv.text())[cursor]	
			cursor += 1
			if t in ("')]}"+'"'):
				break
	else:
		# normal key
		tv.insertText_(sender.title)	
		return
	# set cursor
	cursor_position = tv.positionFromPosition_offset_(tv.beginningOfDocument(), cursor)
	tv.selectedTextRange = tv.textRangeFromPosition_toPosition_(cursor_position, cursor_position)	

class MyView(ui.View):
	def __init__(self, pad, *args, **kwargs):
		#super().__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)	
		self.width = ui.get_screen_size()[0]			# width of keyboard = screen
		self.background_color = 'lightgray'#(0,1,0,0.2)
		self.h_button = 32	
		self.pad = pad
		
		# build buttons
		for pad_elem in self.pad:
			if pad_elem['key'] in ('nul', 'new row'):		#  free space or new row
				continue
			button = ui.Button()									# Button for user functionnality
			button.name = pad_elem['key']
			button.background_color = 'white'			# or any other color
			button.tint_color = 'black'
			button.corner_radius = 5		
			button.font = ('<system>',self.h_button - 8)
			button.title = ''
			if 'title' in pad_elem:
				button.title = pad_elem['title']
			elif 'icon' in pad_elem:
				button.image = ui.Image.named(pad_elem['icon']).with_rendering_mode(ui.RENDERING_MODE_ORIGINAL)
			else:
				button.title = pad_elem['key']

			button.action = key_pressed
			retain_global(button) # see https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/4653/button-action-not-called-when-view-is-added-to-native-view
			self.add_subview(button)	
		self.layout()		

	def layout(self):
		import ui
		#print('layout')
		# supports changing orientation
		#print(ui.get_screen_size())
		dx = 8
		dy = 2
		x0 = 15
		y0 = 10
		dx_middle = 25 
		y = y0
		x = x0
		w_button = (ui.get_screen_size()[0] - 2*x0 - 17*dx - dx_middle)/18
		for pad_elem in self.pad:
			nw = pad_elem.get('width', 1)
			wb = w_button*nw + dx*(nw-1)
			if (x + wb + dx) > self.width:
				y = y + self.h_button + dy
				x = x0
			if pad_elem['key'] == 'nul':					# let free space	
				x = x + wb + dx	
				continue
			elif pad_elem['key'] == 'new row':		# new row
				y = y + self.h_button + dy
				x = x0
				continue
			button = self[pad_elem['key']]
			xb = x + dx_middle if (x+wb) > self.width/2 else x
			button.frame = (xb,y,wb,self.h_button)
			if button.title != '':
				font_size = self.h_button - 8
				while True:
					d = ui.measure_string(button.title,font=(button.font[0],font_size))[0]+4
					if d <= wb:
						break
					font_size = font_size - 1			
			button.font = (button.font[0],font_size)
			x = x + wb + dx
		self.height = y + self.h_button + dy	
	
@on_main_thread	
def AddButtonsToPythonistaKeyboard(pad=None):
	if not pad:
		pad = [
		{'key':'after','title':'⤵️'}]
	ev = editor._get_editor_tab().editorView()
	tv = ev.textView()
	#print(tv._get_objc_classname())
	#print(dir(tv))
	
	# create ui.View for InputAccessoryView above keyboard
	v = MyView(pad)												# view above keyboard
	vo = ObjCInstance(v)									# get ObjectiveC object of v
	retain_global(v) # see https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/4653/button-action-not-called-when-view-is-added-to-native-view
	tv.setInputAccessoryView_(vo)	# attach accessory to textview
			
if __name__ == '__main__':	
	AddButtonsToPythonistaKeyboard()