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		carlosrr on March 18, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TextMate vs AptanaStudio If you select the 9+6 and then insert the opening parenthesis it will wrap everything automatically. This is not really intuitive, but the extra idiocy is there for a reason.

axod on March 18, 2009 | [–]

Sure. But I don't want to select text, I want to type/edit the way I want to.

I've disabled all the 'insert extra random characters' shenanigans now.

carlosrr on March 19, 2009 | | [–]

There is an Auto-pair characters checkbox under Text Editing in the preferences.

rugger on March 18, 2009 | [–]

Does anybody know how to do this in emacs?

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