Auto complete braces unwanted behavior

[kminchev]

I have everything under Settings > Auto Completion Settings > Auto Complete braces and quotes unchecked, but when I type ( or any other type of brace or quote over a selection of text it gets auto-completed by ) even it the setting for that isn't enabled.

I'd expect it to overwrite the selection with (.

[zufuliu]

The behavior of (selection) is not configurable currently, see https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2/wiki/Auto-Completion-in-Notepad2#auto-complete-braces-and-quotes.

[kminchev]

So is this intended behavior or you're looking for a workaround? I hope it's not intended, because virtually every editor I know of overwrites the selection when you type anything on it.

[zufuliu]

The behavior (enclose instead of overwrite selection) is borrowed from other editors, e.g. VS Code, Visual Studio, Sublime Text, CodeWarrior, etc.

Add (or reuse current AutoInsertMask) option to configure it would be good.

[zufuliu]

The configuration should works after 0682602, feel free to test latest builds from https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2/actions/runs/4510000510.

[kminchev]

Works great! Thanks for the update!

Looking forward to the release ;)

[kminchev]

Unfortunately, I have to re-report this after the latest release - when you type ( and hit Enter the new line is indented.

[zufuliu]

when you type ( and hit Enter the new line is indented.

That's configured by "Auto indent text" option.

[zufuliu]

Relevant code is following, probably it should omit [ and (:
https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2/blob/09ee0dd61513e065fb7e6ab33963ac1e816780ce/src/EditAutoC.c#L2164-L2170

[kminchev]

Thanks! Wasn't aware of the Auto Indent Text option.