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29.0.50; electric-pair-mode not respecting electric-pair-inhibit-predicate.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ergus <spacibba <at> aol.com>
Cc: 53661 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53661: 29.0.50; electric-pair-mode not respecting electric-pair-inhibit-predicate.
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:04:02 +0200

> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:29:31 +0100
> From: Ergus <spacibba <at> aol.com>
> Cc: 53661 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >> (memq syntax '(?\( ?\" ?\$))
> >>
> >> So, for other pairs, the function electric-pair-inhibit-predicate is
> >> never called.
> >
> >The above condition looks at the _syntax_ of a character, not at the
> >character itself.  So what do you find "hard-coded" there,and what
> >kind of pairs of characters did you want to add that don't have one of
> >those syntaxes?
> 
> Hi Eli:
> 
> I wanted to add "<>" so I added to my init:
> 
> (add-to-list 'electric-pair-pairs '(?< . ?>))

And it didn't work because of the hard-coded syntaxes?

What is the syntax of ?< in the mode where you wanted to add that?

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