Esteban Küber Oct 2, 2025
After years of procrastinating I went into VSCode's settings and disabled "auto-closing delimiters", the main reason for countless stray `, ', ", ), ] and }.
An hour in and I can feel a weight removed from my shoulders.
Show threadJeff MartinOct 2, 2025
@ekuber omg, I soooo need to find that setting too!
Show threadEsteban Küber Oct 2, 2025
@cuchaz
Settings > Text Editor > Auto Closing Brackets and Auto Closing Quotes
Show threadJeff MartinOct 2, 2025

@ekuber Thanks!  

I've been learning VSCode recently and the auto-closing thing has just been driving me nuts.

That and needing to recall my save reflex. JetBrains has spoiled me for so long!

Show threadgoedelchen

@cuchaz @ekuber ... and I thought it's just me being old and, after 15 years without coding, just not being able to adapt to the way things are done today.

I know what I'm typing because this is how I learned typing (on a mechanical typewriter when I was young ... in medieval times or so) and hence I don't have to look at what I'm typing, I can look at other things. Having an editor doing something else makes it an unproductivity tool for me.

Oct 3, 2025 at 11:37amWeb