[Cuis-dev] Why Workspace>>#allowStylingWithEmphasis returns false?

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Mon Mar 22 13:20:29 PDT 2021


Just pushed an update. Enable preference at will.

Cheers,

On 3/22/2021 4:53 PM, Hernan Wilkinson via Cuis-dev wrote:
> I like bold for class names... I think a preference would be the best
>
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 at 16:47 Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org 
> <mailto:juan at jvuletich.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 3/18/2021 6:27 PM, Hernan Wilkinson via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>     Hi Juan,
>>      when typing a class in the workspace, it appears in normal text
>>     but when typing it in a browser it appears in bold. That is kind
>>     of misleading to new smalltalkers and it was not like that a few
>>     versions ago.
>>      I traced the problem back to allowStylingWithEmphasis that
>>     returns false for workspaces, but I do not understand its comment
>>     :-)
>>
>>      I'd like to have classes highlighted the same way in a browser
>>     and a workspace, but I'm not sure what will be broken if
>>     Workspace>>#allowStylingWithEmphasis returns true... Could you
>>     take a look?
>>
>>     Thanks!
>>     Hernan.
>>
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>>
>>
>>       Hernán Wilkinson
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>
>     Hi Hernán,
>
>     That method used to answer true, and styling in workspaces was as
>     you prefer. But bold or italic text might use different amount of
>     space than regular text, and all text usually needed to be reflown
>     during edition. Large workspaces with a lot of content became
>     sluggish. So, I disabled emphasis (bold or italic) in styled code
>     in workspaces.
>
>     There are several options here. We could make that a preference
>     (that could be on by default in CuisUniversity). Or we could just
>     disable it also on browsers.
>
>     Opinions?
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     -- 
>     Juan Vuletich
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>     @JuanVuletich
>
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