I have it enabled to automatically close quotes/brackets, but it's annoying with the quotes when I may use apostrophes in comments - it wants to close it!

Obviously I am in a comment.. shouldn't it be disabled when within a comment?

I'd like to second this. Auto-balancing of brackets/quotes can be very frustrating at times (and other IDEs are much less annoying in that regard) but it's most obviously broken inside comments.


shouldn't result in:

And the motion carries. I like this when coding but having it occur in comments is just plain annoying.

I don't use auto-balancing anymore, but I agree.

I'd highly appreciate if you describe in details what logic behind this feature would work better for you.

Once you are inside a comment, things like autoclosing should not be active. It makes no sense

Simple: when typing inside a comment, don't automatically close quotes, brackets, etc. All of these characters are automatically being closed for me when inside a comment: ', ", {, [, (.

While the auto-closing of those characters is very useful while writing code, it's very frustrating when typing a comment, especially since comments often contain apostrophes for contractions (don't, can't, etc.), where you really don't want a second apostrophe left at the end of the comment. As I mentioned above, if you were to type:

PhpED would automatically insert extra characters, resulting in:

And then you have to go and delete the superfluous characters once you've finished writing the comment. It's a waste of time and very inconvenient.

I second the motion... I hate this too.

It's pretty much the only reason I have this feature turned off, it bugs the hell out of me!

As the thread owner said, when in a comment or inside a string, the IDE should NOT auto-close anything in fact. The same problem happens with brackets and parenthesis too.

I'm disappointed that nusphere released a new version and this was still not addressed.

Me too... it's a pretty annoying problem!