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by carlosrr 6299 days ago
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.
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axod 6299 days ago
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.

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carlosrr 6299 days ago
There is an Auto-pair characters checkbox under Text Editing in the preferences.
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1gor 6299 days ago
Does anybody know how to do this in emacs?
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