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24.4.50; rst-mode is missing electric-pairs

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Message #10 received at 17131-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Sebastian Wiesner <lunaryorn <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 17131-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17131: 24.4.50; rst-mode is missing electric-pairs
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:05:10 -0400

> With electric-pairs-mode enabled, rst-mode does not pair * and ` (the
> backtick).  The star is used for emphasis and strong markup as in
> *emphasized* and **bold**, and the backtick is even more ubiquitous, as
> it surrounds literal text, references, and role arguments.

I installed the patch below into emacs-24 which should fix it, thank you,


        Stefan


=== modified file 'lisp/textmodes/rst.el'
--- lisp/textmodes/rst.el	2014-03-16 03:47:31 +0000
+++ lisp/textmodes/rst.el	2014-04-28 14:59:46 +0000
@@ -799,6 +797,8 @@
 ;; Pull in variable definitions silencing byte-compiler.
 (require 'newcomment)
 
+(defvar electric-pair-pairs)
+
 ;; Use rst-mode for *.rst and *.rest files.  Many ReStructured-Text files
 ;; use *.txt, but this is too generic to be set as a default.
 ;;;###autoload (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist (purecopy '("\\.re?st\\'" . rst-mode)))
@@ -860,6 +860,9 @@
   (set (make-local-variable 'uncomment-region-function)
        'rst-uncomment-region)
 
+  (set (make-local-variable 'electric-pair-pairs)
+       '((?\" . ?\") (?\* . ?\*) (?\` . ?\`)))
+
   ;; Imenu and which function.
   ;; FIXME: Check documentation of `which-function' for alternative ways to
   ;;        determine the current function name.

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