# Extra quote/parenthesis impedes typing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extra-quote-parenthesis-impedes-typing/218212>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extra-quote-parenthesis-impedes-typing/218212 "2020-02-06T15:44:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![nashley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nashley/32/61502_2.png) [@nashley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nashley)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extra-quote-parenthesis-impedes-typing/218212/1 "2020-02-06T15:44:39Z")

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Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this.  
When typing queries into Kibana, it'll "helpfully" add a `"` or `)` after a `"` or `(` is typed. Is there any chance this could be configurable? I imagine that some people would find it useful, but it just seems to get in my way when typing.

Additionally, if the query string is longer than the input box, the input box will forcefully scroll back to the beginning despite the cursor remaining hidden at the end of the input, which makes it exceedingly difficult to write longer queries.  
Thanks!

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**Author:** ![nashley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nashley/32/61502_2.png) [@nashley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nashley)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extra-quote-parenthesis-impedes-typing/218212/2 "2020-02-06T16:43:16Z")

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It'd also be great if the datetime selector would consistently use 24 hour time instead of forcing users to convert in their head:  
 ![2020-02-06-164233_402x367_scrot](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/1/21a62b0ebf710b746e2aca689854bf9a901f1e8f.png)

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extra-quote-parenthesis-impedes-typing/218212/3 "2020-02-20T13:38:48Z")

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Hi @nashley,

Sorry for the super late reply.  
thanks a lot for your input, you are raising very valid points here! We are tracking feature requests in the Kibana Github repo, could you kindly copy over your case there: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?template=Feature\_request.md](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?template=Feature_request.md) ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extra-quote-parenthesis-impedes-typing/218212/4 "2020-03-19T13:38:53Z")

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