[Rails] ERB % tag shortcut

[Gavin Sinclair]

On Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 10:32:19 PM, David wrote:

>>   % A line of Ruby code goes here.
>>
>> Does Rails support this shortcut?  I'm purposefully not looking up the
>> documentation, because if it does and I don't know by now, it's
>> perhaps not well enough documented.

> Interesting feature, didn't know about it. I'm a bit undecided as to
> whether I think it's a good idea. I could easily see how you could 
> accidently trigger it.

Just for completeness, if you want a literal % at the start of the
line, you use (predictably enough) %%.  And it's not like a mistake
would survive testing.

But I'm not suggesting it should be the default.  And it's quite
possibly more trouble than it's worth to offer configuration.

> And I have <% %> and <%= %> assigned to hotkeys in TextMate anyway ;)

True, but creating and maintaining are different things :)

Gavin