GNU bug report logs - #35480
insert-wide-parentheses

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 20:39:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #28 received at 35480 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 35480 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>,
 jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: bug#35480: insert-wide-parentheses
Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 22:33:18 +0300
>> Loading /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/emacs-27.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp.el (source)...
>> Wrong type argument: char-table-p, nil
>> make[2]: *** [Makefile:808: bootstrap-emacs.pdmp] Error 255

This is very strange.  I recompiled several times and had no such error.

> This change has another, IMO more serious, problem: it uses the
> bidi-bracket property of characters entirely out of its intended
> domain.  The _only_ valid usage of that property is in the context of
> the UBA, the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm, used for reordering
> bidirectional text for display.  Pairing syntactical units in program
> text is something entirely different.

I reverted to the old default value, and changed defvar to defcustom.

Also tried to add a button that would pre-fill the default value
with Unicode bracket pairs, but I see no way to do this because
customize's :options is limited to ‘hook’, ‘plist’, ‘alist’ types
only, alas.




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