Automatically closes brackets and quotes.
Run the install.sh script.
Restart gedit if it is already started.
Select Edit->Preferences from the menu. Click on the Plugins tab and enable the "Pair Character Completion" plugin.
Automatically inserts a closing parenthesis ) whenever an opening parenthesis ( is typed. The default paired characters are (), [], {}, "", '', and ``. The plugin is smart enough to automatically overwrite existing closing brackets when appropriate.
Selecting a block of text and typing an opening parenthesis or quote character will enclose the selection in quotes or parenthesis.
To quickly jump out of nested quotes or brackets and start a newline, type Ctrl+Return. To jump to the end of the line, insert a semicolon, and start a newline, type Ctrl+Shift+Return.
Custom sets of per-language pair chars are supported. To change the default pair chars or add support for new languages, edit the file pair_char_lang.py.