Re: With electric-pair-mode, N prefix arg should insert N balanced pairs

[Joseph Turner]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Joseph Turner <joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in>
>> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 22:49:17 -0700

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> Thanks, but why do you expect "(())" rather than "()()"?  Electric
> Pair mode works per inserted character, and doesn't know anything
> about nesting.

I noticed the unexpected behavior when attempting to surround some text
with multiple braces in order to create Anki flashcards.

More or less, I wanted to go from "foo" to "{{foo}}", and I thought
perhaps that with the whole word selected, pressing "C-2 {" would DTRT.

In general, I'm not sure whether "{}{}" or "{{}}"is more useful or
expected, but I suspect both are better than "{{}".

> In any case, this should have been submitted as a bug report, and go
> to the bug tracker, not posted here.

You're right.  I'll repost on the bug tracker.

Thank you!

Joseph