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electric-pair-mode fails to balance in certain cases

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From: npostavs <at> gmail.com
To: Dario Gjorgjevski <dario.gjorgjevski <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 36006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36006: electric-pair-mode fails to balance in certain cases
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 13:36:39 -0400

Dario Gjorgjevski <dario.gjorgjevski <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Consider the following text in html-mode with electric-pair-mode turned
> on and electric-pair-skip-self set to electric-pair-default-skip-self:
>
>          <|>
>
> (Take | to denote point.)  In this situation, the expected result of
> attempting to insert > is to skip over the one immediately after point,
> i.e., end up with <>|.  However, what we get instead is <>|>.  Only if
> we *now* attempt to insert >, we end up with <>>|, which doesn't make
> any sense.

I'm having trouble reproducing this; what's the exact sequence of input
starting from 'emacs -Q'?  And what version of Emacs is this?

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