Subject: bug#79047: Add some multi-character pairs to some major modes.

From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 10:39:03 -0600

Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]> writes:

>> > From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <[email-masked]>
>> > Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:04:12 -0600
>
>> > Since `electric-pair-mode` now supports multi-character pairs, it would
>> > be better if some major modes add some of these pairs.
>
>> > Before making the patch for this (and to avoid doing another regression
>> > like bug#77823), here is a list of the modes and their possible pairs:
>
>> >  - c-like modes
>> >      "/*" "*/"
>
> Elijah, I'm speaking here from the point of view of CC Mode.
>
> What exactly do you mean by "adding" these multi-character pairs?  What
> would the user see that she doesn't already see?

These pairs are meant to be used in for auto-close block comments, after
the user types "/*", the corresponding "*/" will be inserted, packages
such as smartparens provide this behavior to most C-like modes.

> Or are you talking about doing something we already do, but in a
> different way?

I don't know if CC Mode have something similar.

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