See the attached screenshot. I've turned off all other Geany plugins and tested it on a simple tag without any attributes but it still does not work. Geany version is 1.33 (GTK3 build on Arch Linux). 
I'm closing this issue, the problem was on my side - the space key was assigned to "Move cursor in snippet" keyboard shortcut and was causing this behavior.
Closed #788.
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