[CLOSED] Option to disable tag autocompletion

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Issue by LunarLoony
Thursday Oct 10, 2013 at 17:12 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#5469

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I find it disrupts my work significantly when my tags get closed for me - I'm used to using Notepad++ to work and the autocompletion is one of the reasons why I don't like using Dreamweaver.
An option to disable this feature would be excellent.

(note: by tag autocompletion, I mean this:
if I write < h1 >blarg and then type </ it will complete the </ h1 > for me)

Thanks

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Comment by njx
Monday Oct 14, 2013 at 18:41 GMT

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@Phlum - thanks for filing this. Do you also dislike the other kind of autocompletion we do (where if you type an open tag like <p>, we automatically insert a </p>)? (I personally think it's weird that we have both :) and think we should just have one, but am curious whether you'd rather get rid of both behaviors.)

Marking move to backlog since we'll need to do some design work to figure out how to resolve this.

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Comment by LunarLoony
Wednesday Oct 16, 2013 at 17:30 GMT

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I think the best course of action would be to have a separate checkbox for each behaviour. Personally I don't like either - however, there are people who like their autocomplete and keeping all options open will be best, I think.

Cheers

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Comment by njx
Wednesday Oct 16, 2013 at 17:40 GMT

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Got it, thanks.

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Comment by njx
Wednesday Apr 09, 2014 at 18:09 GMT

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You can now set this by editing your user preference file to set the closeTags pref - see https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/How-to-Use-Brackets#preferences for instructions on how to do this. We don't have UI yet , but when we get our general preferences UI built this will be part of that.

Closing as implemented.

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Comment by kwilliams3
Thursday Mar 12, 2015 at 09:13 GMT

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Awesome! Thank you so much!

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Comment by srkdonpro
Sunday Mar 22, 2015 at 17:57 GMT

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Thank you Phlum <3

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Comment by estevancarlos
Wednesday Jun 29, 2016 at 05:44 GMT

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This is an interesting issue. I find that autocompletion complicates the education process. A part of me feels that a student should practice closing their tags before using autocomplete and some students I have too easily forget autocomplete is on and thus type duplicate closed tags. Anyway, glad there's an option to disable.

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Comment by gtwy
Thursday Oct 06, 2016 at 17:09 GMT

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As this is from 2014, I just want to say it would be nice if we had this in the GUI now. I kind of struggled along with this for a while til I finally googled it and found this thread. I didn't think there was a solution because there IS a GUI option to disable auto close brackets.

Auto-completing tags doesn't make any sense, I was constantly backspacing. However, just like Plum, I do very much like auto complete on </.

Either way, thank you for making this a configurable feature, even if it wasn't super intuitive to figure out.

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Comment by cTxplorer
Tuesday Dec 05, 2017 at 06:53 GMT

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I tried searching the menus to turn off the auto-completing tags. After a while, when I could not bear with it, I tried searching it online and found out this issue page. I configured the .json file, and it worked.

As suggested by@gtwy, the configurable feature is good to go. But, it would be better if we had this in GUI. Anyway, Thanks.

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Comment by hayrettinsalgin
Wednesday Jan 02, 2019 at 15:51 GMT

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not work for me