I’m trying to disable “automatic brace completion” in VS 2017 (and any other version of VS), but VisualGDB seems insistent on typing things } ] ) for me that I don’t want.

Unchecking “Automatic Brace Completion” under Options > Text Editor > All Languages doesn’t have any effect: it reverts to the semi-checked state on the next visit.

Automatic Brace Completion is unchecked under C/C++ > General.

Under C/C++ (VisualGDB) the option is entirely greyed out, indicating that it can’t be altered (although it’s not displayed as checked).

VisualGDB seems pretty awesomely awesome for getting the project built but I do NOT want it interfering with my typing flow.

So how do I disable this misfeature?

thanks