# Coming in 8.1.18: Script editor improvements

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 16, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/coming-in-8-1-18-script-editor-improvements/59629 "2022-05-16T18:39:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/coming-in-8-1-18-script-editor-improvements/59629/87 "2024-01-29T22:16:04Z")

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Note: Any really big stuff will have to wait until _after_ 8.3.0, so don't expect a lot on this topic for a while. _But_, a dependency bump in the bundled library did get a few little niceties I think you'll all appreciate; these will be in the nightly tomorrow and in 8.1.38 full:

1. "Smart" quotes - single and double quotes will automatically surround the selection, and nicely 'overtype' at the end.  
 ![Kapture 2024-01-24 at 10.27.53](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/6/b/6b93c5ce7e88a65228cfeef84b31dc61d692a613.gif)
2. "Smart" square brackets and curly braces - much the same as quotes, for automatic surround of a given selection.  
 ![Kapture 2024-01-24 at 10.29.06](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/5/0/50954cd6786f7f01d6f5bed11dcfb43f04e889e4.gif)
3. Proper automatic indentation. This one is something I had so baked into my brain I didn't even realize it was missing - I literally always do a colon -\> newline -\> tab automatically, so now I end up with _two_ tabs when editing a script in the designer 😆  
 ![Kapture 2024-01-24 at 10.33.55](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/0/90f3244e801d0c9a31efbab6b9fc63748d07a0e1.gif)
4. No flashy GIF, but I tweaked the paste handling a little bit to _hopefully_ help address complaints like [Copy-Pasting Script in Ignition 8.1.32 Results in Indent/Dedent Errors](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/copy-pasting-script-in-ignition-8-1-32-results-in-indent-dedent-errors/80630) 🤞

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