String interpolation with #{variable} in editor does not work properly

[PragTob]

What I mean by doesn't work is that I can't type it in. For instance I wanna type this:

name = ask "What is your name?"
alert "Hello, #{name}!"

However I get stuck at:

name = ask "What is your name?"
alert "Hello, #{name}

Because I can't move the cursor behind } with the keys (right arrow key). I can with the mouse but than I can't type in a single character and if I hit backspace the bracket just gets yellow highlighting. Delete before the bracket also doesn't work. The only thing that works is first writing:

alert "Hello, "

and then inserting the String interpolation. I know the tutorial suggests writing it another way but it is still odd. I suspect that it is supposed to be some editing help for not deleting blocks (since you can delete the first bracket and then both are gone).

edit: If the description is unclear I'll try to make a screencast, please just tell me :-)

[steveklabnik]

This is totally reproducible. I never noticed because I typed the } anyway, since I'm not used to my editor inserting the character...

This probably has to do with us keeping that string buffer. It gets the length wrong or something...

[PragTob]

Ok thanks for reproducing and the hint :-) Will take a look when taking a stab at that code :-D

[steveklabnik]

Sweeeet.

I think we really need to figure out if it's possible to just do these things in a regular text area. The lack of two finger scrolling (#24) and internationationalization (#14) is pretty rough.