LaTeX Brackets is a plugin for the gedit text editor that completes common LaTeX brackets by automatically inserting the appropriate closing bracket whenever a supported opening bracket is typed. It takes its inspiration from the bracket completion plugin that is provided by the gedit-plugins package.

To install the plugin in GNOME 2, move latex-brackets.gedit-plugin and latex-brackets.py to the ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins directory. To install it in GNOME 3, move latex-brackets.plugin and latex-brackets.py to the ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins directory. The plugin can then be enabled in gedit's Preferences.

The supported opening brackets are

• {,
• `,
• $,
• \(,
• \[

and all sizes (\bigl, \Bigl, \biggl, \Biggl and \left) of

• (
• [,
• \{,
• \langle,
• \lbrace,
• \lceil,
• \lfloor,
• \lgroup,
• \lmoustache,
• \lvert,
• \lVert.

Some of these brackets require the amsmath package.

LaTeX Brackets also provides some convenient keyboard features. If the cursor is between a pair of opening and closing brackets then the backspace key removes the whole pair. If the cursor is directly before a closing bracket then the delete key removes the bracket and the tab key moves the cursor past the bracket.