Surround Selection on

[Arthur]

The setting to surround selection on " - can it be separated from others?
Or better yet to have them all separated for better/fine tuning?
I really find it useful to have ( or { or [ surrounded but find most often the " is not helping rather being annoying (e.g. when I need to modify exiting strings it introduces inadvertently at times an extra " which leads to compile time errors if I am not vigilant enough).

[alex]

Hello Arthur,

you can achieve this by changing:

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<OpenClose>()[]{}""</OpenClose>


in corresponding spec file. Just remove "" and you are done (I assume you need to do this in basic_spec.xml).
But do not forget, that you are changing one of default schemes that can be overwritten.

Best regards,
Alex.

[Stefan]

Just to be clear, if someone find this thread:

What Arthur describes disturbing him, is the feature "Auto-Brackets", not "Surround Selection on",
both found at "Tools > Options > Formatting > Smart Helpers".

I think "on" is the wrong word for this feature?
Wouldn't "with" be the better description?
"Surround Selection with Brackets",
(i was fooled too the first times, because i saw all that brackets there and thought "that must be that feature")


But the solution described by Alex is true for both features,
they use both the same source; <OpenClose> tag in <lang>_spec.xml


Explanation:
"Auto-Brackets" insert an closing bracket if an opening bracket is written.
"Surround Selection on" will put brackets on both sides of an selection - if opening bracket is pressed.

Brackets for this issue are defined in <lang>_spec.xml inside of <OpenClose>...</OpenClose> tags,
e.g. : <OpenClose>()[]{}''""</OpenClose>

[alex]

Surround selection on / * etc was copied from Visual Assist settings. So not me have invented this
but nevertheless I have changed text to with Surround selection with