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Unexpected behavior when inserting with prefix arg in electric-pair-mode

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eshel Yaron <me <at> eshelyaron.com>
Cc: 72437 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
 joseph <at> breatheoutbreathe.in
Subject: Re: bug#72437: Unexpected behavior when inserting with prefix arg
 in electric-pair-mode
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 18:40:37 +0300

> From: Eshel Yaron <me <at> eshelyaron.com>
> Cc: Joseph Turner <joseph <at> breatheoutbreathe.in>,  Stefan Monnier
>  <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,  72437 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 13:04:58 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > post-self-insert-hook for each of the ARG inserted characters.  OTOH,
> > to produce "{{}}" we'd probably need to rewrite the
> > electric-pair-mode's hook function, but I have no idea how to rewrite
> > it to do that.
> >
> > Stefan, any suggestions?
> 
> I'm no Stefan, but I took a quick stab at it.  The following diff
> teaches electric-pair-mode about numeric prefix arguments:

Thanks, but isn't it cleaner if we simply call the hook from cmds.c
the same number of times as we insert a character?

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