I’m not sure if this is the right category (sorry if not). I’ve tried the IRC chan with no luck..

Is there a way to turn off the bracket and quote auto-completing?
It would be perfect if they’d work like in Textmate, but the way Espresso is doing it now makes more problems than good for me.

Thanks!

Hey Tadas,

There is no autocompleting for brackets or quotes in Espresso by default. You probably installed a Sugar that has a snippet to achieve that (likely the Text.sugar or one of the older Python.sugars).

The only exception is CSS; auto-completing those brackets is indeed a feature of Espresso.

If you want to continue using a Sugar but turn off autocompletion of brackets, please let me know which sugar and I can give you specific instructions.

Thanks Ian! It was the stijndm-drupal.sugar, but I was barely using it anyway so trashing it solved my problem and I can continue ejoying coding. Great. Thanks again

Ian Beck - 14 June 2010 07:31 PM

There is no autocompleting for brackets or quotes in Espresso by default. You probably installed a Sugar that has a snippet to achieve that (likely the Text.sugar or one of the older Python.sugars).

I pretty annoyed by that in the Python sugar I’m using. Can you point me in the direction of a more recent one?

Hey Ian, yes I would like to have turn off autocompletion of brackets in CSS, could you help me to done that?
thanks

@donut: This is the most recently embarked upon Python.sugar that I know of, but I’m not sure how feature-complete it is yet: http://github.com/fileability/PythonAndDjango.sugar

@lolito: To remove or modify bracket handling in CSS, you’ll need to override the sugar:

http://wiki.macrabbit.com/index/Override_default_sugars/

Now that I think of it, there’s actually already a discussion of modifying the bracket snippet handling here:

http://wiki.macrabbit.com/forums/viewreply/2671/

If you want to completely remove the bracket auto-insertion, then remove the <snippet> element rather than modifying its child <text> element (referencing the above-linked post).