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You have people requesting this feature for literally almost 5 years now: http://forums.netbeans.org/ntopic54661.html https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188189 https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188774 You have unhelpful admins asking for a specific use-case for when active code modification would NOT be useful (obviously, when I type a quote ONCE, not twice). You have unhelpful admins suggesting that we should open a new issue in each language that we would like to disable this feature for, because they are all coded separately. (Really? When you have a category under Code Completion called "All Languages"?) And you have apparently fixed it for PHP, Javascript, HTML, and god knows what else, but not your actual flagship product, Java... It boggles the mind. So here I am, opening a ticket to fix it in Java, 5 years later. To clarify: Do not tell me to go to Tools -> Options -> Editor -> Code Completion -> uncheck Insert Closing Brackets Automatically. If you repeat this back to me then you have misunderstood. I like automatic bracket and brace closing. Quotes are not brackets. While we're at it, why don't we go ahead and split out braces, brackets, parentheses, quotes, and whatever else you can think of as separate options for each language and for "All Languages", without having to open 20 separate tickets. Sad to say, this is one area where Eclipse is actually beating you, and I just switched from them. I may skip entirely over NetBeans and go straight to IntelliJ.