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24.5; Electric behavior of dollar sign using AUCTeX

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From: Patrick <patrick <at> math.utah.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.5; Electric behavior of dollar sign using AUCTeX
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 16:56:07 -0600

See the following StackExchange question:
<a href="https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/42278/electric-behavior-of-dollar-sign-using-auctex">https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/42278/electric-behavior-of-dollar-sign-using-auctex</a>
Reporting as suggested by Joao Tavora.



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Message #8 received at 32076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
To: Patrick <patrick <at> math.utah.edu>
Cc: 32076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32076: 24.5; Electric behavior of dollar sign using AUCTeX
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2018 15:37:01 +0100

Patrick <patrick <at> math.utah.edu> writes:

> See the following StackExchange question: <a
> href="https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/42278/electric-behavior-of-dollar-sign-using-auctex">https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/42278/electric-behavior-of-dollar-sign-using-auctex</a>
> Reporting as suggested by Joao Tavora.

Thanks Patrick,

In general we want the bug descriptions Emacs bug tracker to be as
self-contained as possible.  So here's the simple way to reproduce this:

    emacs -Q
    M-x tex-mode
    M-x electric-pair-mode
    type $, two dollars correctly appear and point is in the middle
    type something
    type $, again.  Two dollars appear again instead of skipping over
    the dollar.

The reason for this is that `electric-pair-skip-if-helps-balance'
doesn't recognize the $ (paired-delimiter) syntax.  It's easy to open a
door for this in elec-pair.el (see attached partial patch), but Emacs'
built-in tex-mode doesn't have anything to plug into the new
electric-pair-between-paired-delimiters-function var (or does it?)

AUCTeX, on the other hand, has `texmathp' which seems to do nicely.
Should we lift this function into Emacs, or use some other, perhaps more
generic, technique of discovering wether point is between two $$?

João

diff --git a/lisp/elec-pair.el b/lisp/elec-pair.el
index 7df7098295..3040a5be6d 100644
--- a/lisp/elec-pair.el
+++ b/lisp/elec-pair.el
@@ -428,6 +428,9 @@ electric-pair-inhibit-if-helps-balance
                   (electric-pair--unbalanced-strings-p char))))
        (insert-char char)))))
 
+(defvar electric-pair-between-paired-delimiters-function #'ignore
+  "Function returning non-nil if point between paired delimiters.")
+
 (defun electric-pair-skip-if-helps-balance (char)
   "Return non-nil if skipping CHAR would benefit parentheses' balance.
 
@@ -451,7 +454,9 @@ electric-pair-skip-if-helps-balance
                            ((car innermost)
                             (not (eq (cdr outermost) pair)))))))
                  ((eq syntax ?\")
-                  (electric-pair--inside-string-p char))))
+                  (electric-pair--inside-string-p char))
+                 ((eq syntax ?\$)
+                  (funcall electric-pair-between-paired-delimiters-function))))
        (insert-char char)))))
 
 (defun electric-pair-default-skip-self (char)

Message #11 received at 32076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Patrick Graf <pgraf39 <at> gmail.com>
To: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>, 
 32076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32076: 24.5; Electric behavior of dollar sign using AUCTeX
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 07:32:34 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Hi João,
sorry for not being self-contained. This was my first GNU bug report ;-)
Concerning the fix, I tried texmathp today and indeed it works fine. I have
in mind something like the following snippet (to be run whenever $ is hit):

  (interactive)
  (if (texmathp)
    (if (looking-at-p "[$]")
      (forward-char 1)
      (insert "$"))
    (insert "$$")
    (backward-char 1)))

This also takes care of the issue that when I delete the closing $ by
hitting backspace and then type $ again, a new pair used to be inserted.
A minor drawback is that this only works for $...$ specifically and it
requires AUCTeX, which not everybody may be using. But $...$ is good enough
for me and if I understand you correctly, one could include texmathp.el in
the Emacs source.
Cheers,
Patrick

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