Bug 115987 – think about how auto-NLs in console can be improved

• Component: Web Inspector
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Paul Miller]

Been trying to use webkit.app as main browser, my main concern is new auto-creation of newlines instead of executing the statement.

When it indeed allows to improve readability, it’s often that devs write some boilerplate code like `list.filter(function() {})` and then write code inside function and press enter.

With current implementation, I need to press additionally ⌘→ to move to the end of current string and execute the command.

Any ideas on how can this be improved? I write a lot of code in inspector every day and this can be annoying (maybe I ain’t used to it yet tho)

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/13870951>

[Timothy Hatcher]

Command-Return always executes. Does that work for you?

[Paul Miller]

I guess no as it will also trigger auto-complete (it does currently). Otherwise, yep, probably. Still more annoying than before, but anyway.

In some cases, like strings ('<enter>') the syntax is also invalid.

[Timothy Hatcher]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I guess no as it will also trigger auto-complete (it does currently). Otherwise, yep, probably. Still more annoying than before, but anyway.
> 
> In some cases, like strings ('<enter>') the syntax is also invalid.

It triggering autocomplete is a bug I will fix. Thanks!

You make a good point that enter in the middle of some expressions is not desired and would result in a syntax error. That would be a good improvement. Right now we always insert a newline if the cursor is not at the end of the prompt.

[Timothy Hatcher]

Was fixed 5/14/13 5:12 PM