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24.0.94; electric-pair-mode inserts unnecessary "

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From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com>, 10948 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10948: 24.0.94; electric-pair-mode inserts unnecessary "
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 23:22:36 +0100

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Lars, as an fyi electric-pair-mode was completely, or mostly, rewritten by
me circa 2014. So this bug report is probably stale now...

João

On Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 08:07 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:

> Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com> writes:
>
> > I often encounter electric-pair-mode inserting unnecessary quotation
> > marks on GNU Emacs 24.0.94.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
> > 2.24.9) of 2012-03-01.
> >
> > Recipe:
> >
> > emacs -q
> > C-x b RET # we are in *scratch* now
> > M-x electric-pair-mode RET
> > "test C-d # at this point the line at point should read `"test
> > "
> >
> > the line at point now contains "test"".  I think electric-pair-mode
> > should be smarter here, do a little backtracking, and just insert one
> > quote.
>
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response
> at
> the time.)
>
> I'm unable to reproduce this problem in Emacs 25 or more recent versions
> of Emacs, but I'm not sure I totally understand the recipe:  I end up
> with a line reading
>
> "test"
>
> which is what I expect.  Are you still seeing this issue in recent Emacs
> versions?
>
> --
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
>    bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
>
>
>
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