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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:08:43 +0300

> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:32:15 +0000
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
>   [email-masked], [email-masked]
> From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
> 
> > And as I already mention, you perceive a convention where there is
> > none.
> 
> OK, then, Emacs hackers have abided by this non-convention nevertheless,
> out of instinctive good sense and good taste.  Up until
> post-self-insert-hook.

Which might mean there was no non-convention to begin with.

> > Thus electric-pair-mode doesn't violate any conventions.
> 
> self-insert-command, called from Lisp, is broken.  There is no usable
> definition of its functionality.

What's wrong with its doc string as that definition?