[Newbies] Is there a preference setting to block automatic parentheses?

[Michael Rice]

A better way to have, or not have, it is to use a key combination.
Mathematica uses SHIFT-ALT ( , [ , or {  to get (), [], or {}, otherwise
you get the single character.

Michael

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, David T. Lewis wrote:
>
>  On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 02:02:07PM -0800, Kirk Fraser wrote:
>>
>>> The automatic supply of the right parenthesis when a left parenthesis is
>>> typed appears to cost me more time in deleting the extra than it saves in
>>> the more rare events when I can use the feature.  How can I safely stop
>>> it
>>> for all the p, brackets, and curly braces?  Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, there is a preference. Look in category "Morphic" and disable the
>> "Auto Enclose" preference.
>>
>> Some people like this preference a lot. Others think it is horrible.
>>
>
> This implmenentation is not the best. The one in E/OCompletion is better.
>
> Levente
>
>
>
>> Dave
>>
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