Observed arrival · 2026-10-18
Fuck Auto Braces
A practical, editor-by-editor guide to turning off automatic insertion of matching brackets, braces, parentheses, and quotes.
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- Developers using editors with automatic pairing
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- The EDIT.COM/QBASIC.EXE section asks how the reader is online, since those editors do not support the feature.
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Instructions are organized by editor, with settings-menu paths for graphical applications and configuration edits for command-line editors. The vim/neovim section points readers to `vim-autobrace`, a specific insert-mode mapping, and common configuration-file locations; the Helix entry gives the setting `auto-pairs = false`. The page also invites readers to email suggestions for additional editors.
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