Textadept will autoclose " ' ", making it very difficult to write english contractions like "don't" about textadept HOT 5 CLOSED

I tried using chatGPT 4 to solve the problem, while looking at the code myself. I'm new to lua and textadept. I didn't manage, every fix suggested by chatGPT was totally a failure :)
This is the conversation. Interesting that it seems to know so much about textadept (a surprise) but it's all wrong!

https://chat.openai.com/share/d14227e6-9988-4ae6-88ee-2c7e9a5e7c42

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Fascinating. It looks like chatGPT's knowledge of Textadept is up-to-date in some places, but outdated in others. This auto-close feature is called auto-pair, and the manual demonstrates how to turn it off (https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/manual.html#adept-editing). Put the following in your ~/.textadept/init.lua:

textadept.editing.auto_pair = nil

If you just want to turn off the behavior for apostrophes, you'd use

textadept.editing.auto_pair["'"] = nil

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Thanks so much! You are right, it's in the manual; really sorry I wasted your time. And also sorry I thought it would be faster to use chatGTP than reading the manual. A pity it's so inconsistent. It would be wonderful it it knew the latest API. Maybe one can try doing retrieval-augmented-generation with an open source LLM using the docs... interesting side project! maybe I'll attempt it.

I tried both solutions, and somehow they didn't work for me. The first one fails silently, second one with an error

Here's my init.lua (could be there's an interaction with something else?)
https://pastebin.com/edDv1cc6

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That was my mistake. It's textadept.editing.auto_pairs. Note the trailing 's'. Sorry about that.

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Thanks, that works, closing issue

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