Disabling automatic closing of brackets and parenthesis in DW CC 2018?

[stephaneb34215240]

Is there a way to disable the automatic insertion of closing brackets in DW 2018? I appreciate the HTML and PHP code completion but the closing of brackets drives me crazy.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Jon Fritz]

Go to Edit > Preferences > Code Hints and select the Never option for Close Tags...

[stephaneb34215240]

I'm sorry, I meant characters like: { }, " ", ( )

As soon as I type the opening one, DW inserts the closing one.

I'm fine with the closing HTML tags.

[Jon Fritz · Accepted solution]

Ah, that one you have to squish in the brackets.json file...

1. On a PC, go to C: > Users > your user name >  AppData (make sure hidden files are turned on if you don't see this folder) > Roaming > Adobe > Dreamweaver CC 2018 > your language > Configuration > Brackets > brackets.json

1a. On a Mac, this "should" be... (I don't have a Mac)

  a. do a search for  ~/Library/Application Support (make sure the ~ is there)

  b. hit Go

  c. next, go to Adobe > Dreamweaver CC 2017 > your language > Configuration > Brackets > brackets.json

2. (make a back-up first so you can go back if you goof) Open the file in something other than DW

3. If the option for closeBrackets doesn't already exist, add a comma to the last item on the list, then add the following to the end of the file, before the closing } ...

"closeBrackets": false,

(make sure the "b" in Brackets is capitalized)

3. Save and open DW and that "should" stop the auto closing for you.

[jamesjbarnett]

Incredibly useful - only thing I'll add here is that typically when updating Dreamweaver CC is that it leaves the older folder in place (i.e. I upgraded from 2020 to 2021 but both folders are still in the directory). I found to get it working properly using this method I needed up update both version's JSON files (not sure why) but it seemed to fix it so I'm happy.

[Jon Fritz · Accepted solution]

This post is 7 years and several versions out of date.

In the intervening years, Adobe has added simple checkbox preferences to toggle the auto-completion of braces and quotes. It's in the same location I gave originally (Preferences > Code Hints). Now unchecking them will turn off the functions, making a modification to the same file as the manual instructions I gave previously...