Hi, this is a kate bug, and you get the same behaviour in kate. I will open a bug report against kate and reference it here.
You can (somehow) work around that you activate "double quotes" in configure->latex->general. Now if you type " you get "` and from the next " you get "` in this way you can write and easy form of \glqq and \grqq and also use the auto brackets. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]