GNU bug report logs - #77823
31.0.50; M-j regression since commit 4c6b1712a4d

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Reported by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 31.0.50

Done: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>

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From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 77823 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Subject: bug#77823: 31.0.50; M-j regression since commit 4c6b1712a4d
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:52:31 -0600

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

> > This isn't fundamentally about comments at all.  For example, these
> > multichar pairs could include the opening "case" and closing "esac" in a
> > shell script, right?
>
> Maybe 'electric-pair-mode' should support string delimiters
> in addition to characters, e.g.
>
>   (setopt electric-pair-pairs `(("case" . "esac")))
>

Right, but using case for this would be a downside from my POV, if you
write `case' in a comment for documentation it will auto insert `esac',
another idea is define a variable in electric-pairs for this kind of pairs
which specifies if a pair can be expanded in comments/strings.

>

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