bug#73688: [PATCH] electric-pair-mode - preserve balance in conservative mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

Ping! Marc, can you please answer Stefan's questions?

> Cc: 73688@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:47:02 -0400
> From:  Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> >> IOW, why do you use `electric-pair-conservative-inhibit` if you care
> >> about preserving global balance?
> >
> > Fair enough. To answer your question, I want the other things you have
> > listed in `electric-pair-conservative-inhibit`.  In particular, the
> > line commented "I also find it often preferable not to pair next to
> > a word." is very valuable to me.  However, I can solve my issue pretty
> > easily by adding something like the following to my init.el:
> >
> > (setq electric-pair-inhibit-predicate
> >       ;; Also inhibit if the pair would balanced
> >       (lambda (char)
> >         (or (electric-pair-conservative-inhibit char)
> >             (electric-pair-inhibit-if-helps-balance char))))
> 
> I see, I think you can get the same result with
> 
>     (add-function :before-until electric-pair-inhibit-predicate
>                   #'electric-pair-conservative-inhibit)
> 
> But maybe it would make sense to add a third value to
> `electric-pair-preserve-balance` to get the behavior you describe.
> 
> > The reason I submitted the patch is because is took me several years
> > to get irritated enough to dig in and fix it for myself! :) Also, like
> > I said above, it seemed non-intuitive.  Thanks for considering, but
> > feel free to disregard.
> 
> Do you have an idea of how/where we could change some of the
> documentation to avoid that kind of problem in the future?
> 
> 
>         Stefan
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