GNU bug report logs - #4136
23.1; delete-pair

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Message #55 received at 4136 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: Eli Barzilay <eli <at> barzilay.org>, 4136 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4136: 23.1; delete-pair
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:11:29 +0200

> This command is useful even if it doesn't fail on (...] because
> forward-sexp and backward-sexp don't fail on (...].

Is this carved in stone?  The TODO file has

** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
  i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.

I always wondered what that entry aimed at ...

> It seems you and Martin prefer checking against the `insert-pair-alist'
> because the function name `delete-pair' suggests it should be
> a counterpart of `insert-pair'.  In this case I think we sould have
> two commands: one more strict version `delete-pair' that checks
> `insert-pair-alist', and another loose version with the name e.g.
> `delete-parens' with the body of the current `delete-pair'.

In any case, removing the first and last character from a name doesn't
strike me as very "pair-like" ;-)

martin

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