# Feature un-request- back-tick quote balancing

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-un-request-back-tick-quote-balancing/2626>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [10 June 2019 20:16 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-un-request-back-tick-quote-balancing/2626 "2019-06-10T20:16:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![wikispish](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/wikispish/32/1058_2.png) [@wikispish](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/wikispish)\
**Post date:** [10 June 2019 20:16 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-un-request-back-tick-quote-balancing/2626/1 "2019-06-10T20:16:18Z")

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I think this was added in 1.0.157 under “Added backticks to auto-wrapping quotes”.

I place a lot of source code in my notes, and Joplin is helpfully adding what it **thinks** is the right number of balanced quotes. Needless to say, this causes a lot of backspacing, etc. as I change two or four backticks back to three…

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**Author:** ![CalebJohn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/calebjohn/32/356_2.png) [@CalebJohn](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/CalebJohn)\
**Post date:** [10 June 2019 20:41 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-un-request-back-tick-quote-balancing/2626/2 "2019-06-10T20:41:34Z")

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I think this has just been fixed today and the updated behaviour should be available in the next release (or perhaps the one after).

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**Author:** ![fkl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/65b543/32.png) [@fkl](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/fkl)\
**Post date:** [29 December 2019 03:32 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-un-request-back-tick-quote-balancing/2626/3 "2019-12-29T03:32:21Z")

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@CalebJohn Could you add an option to disable generating _all_ closing quotes/braces/etc? This is so irritating.

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**Author:** ![CalebJohn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/calebjohn/32/356_2.png) [@CalebJohn](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/CalebJohn)\
**Post date:** [30 December 2019 06:55 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-un-request-back-tick-quote-balancing/2626/4 "2019-12-30T06:55:13Z")

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Ya I’ll look into it, I’m not a fan of auto matching braces myself.

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**Author:** ![laurent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@laurent](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/laurent)\
**Post date:** [30 December 2019 08:11 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-un-request-back-tick-quote-balancing/2626/5 "2019-12-30T08:11:06Z")

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If it’s not possible to make it work, maybe we should remove the feature then. I prefer not to add an option for this.

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**Author:** ![tessus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/tessus/32/13_2.png) [@tessus](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/tessus)\
**Post date:** [30 December 2019 19:25 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-un-request-back-tick-quote-balancing/2626/6 "2019-12-30T19:25:35Z")

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A lot of editors do that, so I vote to keep it.

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**Author:** ![psophos](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/psophos/32/1954_2.png) [@psophos](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/psophos)\
**Post date:** [30 December 2019 20:14 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-un-request-back-tick-quote-balancing/2626/7 "2019-12-30T20:14:59Z")

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I find it very useful and I vote also to keep it.  
For others, did you consider, for these kind of documents, type it in another editor and then copy/paste it into Joplin editor ?

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**Author:** ![CalebJohn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/calebjohn/32/356_2.png) [@CalebJohn](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/CalebJohn)\
**Post date:** [30 December 2019 22:50 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-un-request-back-tick-quote-balancing/2626/8 "2019-12-30T22:50:11Z")

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I think it makes sense to have a toggle for this one given that there is no right answer. Everybody seems to have a personal preference and it doesn’t make sense for everybody to have to use the same default.

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**Author:** ![laurent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@laurent](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/laurent)\
**Post date:** [30 December 2019 23:10 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-un-request-back-tick-quote-balancing/2626/9 "2019-12-30T23:10:02Z")

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Ok that makes sense, it’s true that other editors generally have this option too, so if you can add it, we can merge.

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**Author:** ![Geobomatic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/geobomatic/32/31_2.png) [@Geobomatic](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Geobomatic)\
**Post date:** [28 August 2020 08:27 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-un-request-back-tick-quote-balancing/2626/10 "2020-08-28T08:27:01Z")

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What it the status on that? Using:  
Joplin 1.0.233 (prod, win32)

Client ID: 1333e5503b574bababa5c80c88fcc160  
Sync Version: 1  
Profile Version: 32  
Keychain Supported: No

Revision: e63eee89 (master)

back tick quote doesn’t balanced even if the option “Auto-pair braces, parenthesis, quotations, etc.” is checked.

My use case: select some text, press back tick quote.  
Expected: back tick quote surounds my text  
Actual: back tick replace my text

square bracket, parenthesis and quotation mark `"` works

EDIT: it works using CodeMirror