Temporarily Disable matching delimiters

[Jamie Katz]

I like "matching delimiters" << where you select some text, type " and get "my text" with opening AND closing quotes.

But sometimes I want to type " and have it NOT add a second quote. Can we have a modifier key that prevents this?

[Roland Küffner]

Hi,

personally I would use the "DEL" modifier (should have come with your keyboard :-) – I would find this well trained key stroke easier than remembering a new and arcane modifier (that only would work in BBEdit).

That said, you could achieve your goal by a workaround: create a Clipping that only contains your single quotation mark. That done, you can give it a key combination of your liking In the Clippings Palette (e.g. ctrl+alt+").

Of course you would have to create a seperate clipping for every "bracket glyph" – as said: a workaround.

Regards

Roland

On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM Jamie Katz <jam...@gmail.com> wrote:

I like "matching delimiters" << where you select some text, type " and get "my text" with opening AND closing quotes.

But sometimes I want to type " and have it NOT add a second quote. Can we have a modifier key that prevents this?

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