Turn off automatic quote closing?

[schkovich]

[daprezjer]

Ah, I see what's going on. And it's actually very helpful. I think the problem for people is that it's not obvious how it works, because it works differently in other editors.

In some other code editors where there's auto completion, you have to type the quote first before auto completion happens. That way it knows whether to use single or double quotes (I've seen arguments on here about whether to enable that option as well, but that's for other people...I like double quotes

So, being familiar with these other programs, I was typing exactly the following, thinking it would bring up the ending quote:

<img src="

Doing so has the following effect:
- write <img src=
- automatically makes <img src="|" (both quotes are inputted automatically with the cursor in between as soon as the equals sign is entered)
- typing the final " overwrites the final " (another nice feature, btw, so that you don't have to forward arrow out of the tag)
leaving you with <img src=""|

Hopefully this explanation will help others out. So, this autocomplete basically just removes the need to type one quote. To get <img src="here", you'd literally type:

<img src=here"

Note that this still means that you have to remember NOT to type that first quote, which is what everyone's used to doing. So it may just take a second to get used to. I'd still suggest then, as many have here, making it an option. Any auto complete should be so.

[Pet]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:53 PM, daprezjer <address-removed> wrote:

[Marek Fukala]

There's an options dialog in netbeans 6.9 for html files where you can
configure the html autocomplete behaviour if you do not like it.

https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145791

Just go to the Preferences -Editor -Code Completion and select HTML in
the combobox.

-marek

daprezjer wrote:

[daprezjer]

Yup, the development release does have the option. Thanks! It does really help, because when you're editing other people's code, as a previous poster noted, sometimes it adds extra quotations, or doesn't add them at all. Gets very confusing.

[Marek Fukala]

Maybe you've encountered
http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184156 ?

I'll try to fix it soon.

I've already deleted the older messages and cannot recall the exact case :-(

-marek

daprezjer wrote:

[scrate]

I would definitely like a way to turn off the auto quotes for the xhtml editor.

When you type an attribute like <img src=, the equals sign("=") triggers the auto quotes. I cannot get used to this since any other IDE/editor I've ever used did not work like that. I always end up typing a quote after the equals sign and that puts you outside of the quotes. This is something thats just ingrained in my hands I can't stop it, and its seriously annoying when I'm hand coding a web page.

[mokum020]

I love Netbeans, apart from the quote madness.

Say, I type:
"I want to type something"

Netbeans will put in my document:
Ï want to type something

and omit the closing quote unless I press the spacebar after typing the quote.

And it does all the stuff described in the earlier posts (entering two quotes, when you only want one, deleting two quotes when you only want to get rid of the rogue one, etc.)

My suggested feature: A setting where Netbeans enters into the document the actual characters I type without thinking for me.

[Niloc]

Please let the user decide what he wants. Please make a checkbox so i can uncheck all the auto completing Netbeans seems to think its handy. Its not Word, it used for programming, so double quotes are all over the place. Its really annoying. I've tried so many editors and IDE's. Netbeans is the last resort for me. I think its exactly what i need, except the auto completing in xhtml. Crazy ! Thanks mokum for this post. dh070

[yakichan]

Any solution?

[Azizur Rahman]

Try,

Tools -> Options -> Editor -> Code Completion -> Uncheck "Insert Closing Brackets Automatically"

If it does not work

see: http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198699

Option to turn it off will be available in NB 7.1.


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:39 PM, yakichan <address-removed ([email]address-removed[/email])> wrote:

[ssm2017]

hello
im using netbeans 7.1 under ubuntu 11.04
<edit> : in the bugzilla ticket, you have changed a request to another feature and did not answer to the request itself.
there is no way to disable the auto closing quotes in 7.1 (or i did not find it)
</edit>
i like the option to auto change quote when selecting text but i would like to be able to disable auto close quotes too.

here is an example of my problem :
i would like to change a long string to multilines.

original string : $query = "SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE field=value";

here are the steps :

1/ $query = "SELECT * FROM mytable"
WHERE field=value";
2/ $query = "SELECT * FROM mytable"
. ""WHERE field=value";

the auto close quotes mechanism is not checking if there is already a quote at the end of the string so it is adding a second quote that i need to delete...

if this is really a problem to disable auto quote closing, maybe you can add a routine to check if there is already a quote at the end of the string and if yes, don't add a second quote.

[zedzedbeta5]

[deragoku]

I often use other IDE, such as vim it, which will increase my typos, I ended = the value of the lack of HP 97 quotation marks.

[daniwan]

I must admit I'm pretty frustrated with this as well. I like to have the code hinting window that shows me the various members and methods of the object that I am working with but I absolutely detest the automated closing quotations and parenthesis. Why is it so hard to add in an option that we can disable this? Example why it sucks big donkey.... you knows.

frame.setVisible(

^^ Type that you get....

frame.setVisible(|[some random value])

Ok, thats fine I guess. I can hit any character and the random value goes away. So now I have...

frame.setVisible(true|)

All I need to do is hit ); <enter> and this line is done. But wait, if I hit ); enter what do I get?

frame.setVisisble(true);)|

^^ wtf?

Maybe I should just use eclipse instead? They let you actually customize things like this. I like the lightweight and responsiveness of netbeans but quite honestly this is becoming a deal breaker for me and many others. So instead of just telling us to get used to it why not listen to your users and give us the option we're asking for? (Filip...)