Re: Two Emacs challenges

[Leon]

William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com> writes:

> Leon <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> (2) pairs
>>
>> How to bind keys such as (, [, {, " etc to perform such function
>>
>> When type once, it will insert a pair while twice insert itself for
>> example: `[' will insert `[]' and leave the cursor in the middle 
>
> Set this, 
>
> (setq skeleton-pair t)
> (global-set-key (kbd "(") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe)
> (global-set-key (kbd "[") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe)
> (global-set-key (kbd "{") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe)
>

This is a very nice function. Thanks.

>> while `[[' will insert `['?
>
> i don't understand why you would like this. Suppose we want to write a
> nested list, like '((a) (b)), same insert scheme is still useful.

Sometimes I just want to insert a missing ( or [ etc before a word or
something. But now skeleton-pair-insert-maybe can handle this well.

-- 
Leon