If you're running Kile 2.1.0 there's another work around.
In Settings - Configure Kile - Latex - General, deselect Automatically
insert opening and closing double quotes for LaTex
Then, further down the Configure list, go to Extensions. Select
AutoBrace and click on the settings block to the
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