[Gambas-user] [Gambas Bug Tracker] Bug #1248: Option to enclose selection when auto-closing quotes/brackets

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http://gambaswiki.org/bugtracker/edit?object=BUG.1248&from=L21haW4-

T. Lee DAVIDSON reported a new bug.

Summary
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Option to enclose selection when auto-closing quotes/brackets

Type             : Request
Priority         : Low
Gambas version   : Master
Product          : Development Environment


Description
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The auto-close quotes/brackets feature in the Gambas IDE is quite handy. Thank you for implementing it.

Editors such as Geany and Kate do the same and also allow for enclosing selected text when typing an opening quote or bracket/brace. I use this particular feature of these editors quite frequently.

Is it possible to, relatively easily, include such a feature in the IDE?


System information
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[System]
Gambas=3.10.90 3c8c5a224 (master)
OperatingSystem=Linux
Kernel=4.4.114-42-default
Architecture=x86_64
Distribution=openSUSE Leap 42.3
Desktop=KDE5
Theme=QtCurve
Language=en_US.UTF-8
Memory=3951M

[Libraries]
Cairo=/usr/lib64/libcairo.so.2.11502.0
Curl=/usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4.3.0
DBus=/lib64/libdbus-1.so.3.8.14
GStreamer=/usr/lib64/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0.30.0
GStreamer=/usr/lib64/libgstreamer-1.0.so.0.803.0
GTK+2=/usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.31
GTK+3=/usr/lib64/libgtk-3.so.0.2000.10
OpenGL=/usr/lib64/libGL.so.1.2.0
Poppler=/usr/lib64/libpoppler.so.60.0.0
QT4=/usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4.8.6
QT5=/usr/lib64/libQt5Core.so.5.6.2
SDL=/usr/lib64/libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.4
SQLite=/usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0.8.6

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COLORTERM=1
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CVS_RSH=ssh
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DISPLAY=:0
FROM_HEADER=
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GOARCH=amd64
GOOS=linux
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GOROOT=/usr/lib64/go/1.9
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/gpg-TPYUYb/S.gpg-agent:2386:1
GPG_TTY=not a tty
GS_LIB=<home>/.fonts
GTK2_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:<home>/.gtkrc-2.0
GTK_IM_MODULE=cedilla
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HOST=<hostname>
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