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Add some multi-character pairs to some major modes.

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Message #56 received at 79047 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 79047 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, acm <at> muc.de, eg642616 <at> gmail.com, jm <at> pub.pink,
 monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#79047: Add some multi-character pairs to some major modes.
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:08:43 +0300

> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:32:15 +0000
> Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, eg642616 <at> gmail.com, 79047 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>   jm <at> pub.pink, acm <at> muc.de
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
> 
> > 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?

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