I had considered that but I couldn't find any language or text style where it would be useful. In languages and text ( [ and { vary little in meaning. HTML and XML are two in the few places where < and > mean other than less than or greater than. Even there I decided that auto closing the < wouldn't be worth the problems it created in the other languages.
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Is there a way to add additional characters to the bracket autocompletion feature? Specifically, the html tag brackets "<" and ">". Thanks
I had considered that but I couldn't find any language or text style where it would be useful. In languages and text ( [ and { vary little in meaning. HTML and XML are two in the few places where < and > mean other than less than or greater than. Even there I decided that auto closing the < wouldn't be worth the problems it created in the other languages.