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**NeatNit** · May 10, 2018, 11:04am

I’m messing around making a .sublime-syntax for SmileBASIC, a BASIC variant for Nintendo 3DS. In this language, the single quote character (’) is used to start a comment - like // in C - and so I want to disable auto-pairing for this characters as part of the syntax definition. However, ideally I want parentheses and double quotes to continue to auto-pair, if the user has not disabled this feature.

How can I achieve this? My searched have found nothing.

**kingkeith** · May 10, 2018, 11:09am

This can be done by creating a .sublime-keymap file in your Package that will override the ’ key to just insert a single apostrophe when the scope at the caret matches your syntax. I can’t find any concrete examples of this being done at the moment to reference though. EDIT: yes, I can:

github.com

sublimehq/Packages/blob/58cb4102be2904f18ec6cac62be2170828164248/Rust/Default.sublime-keymap

[
    // Disable auto-pair for single quote
    { "keys": ["'"], "command": "insert_snippet", "args": {"contents": "'"}, "context":
        [{ "key": "selector", "operator": "equal", "operand": "source.rust" }]
    }
]

Disabling auto-pair quotes for a particular syntax?