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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Mohammed Sadiq <sadiq@sadiqpk.org>
Cc: 28395@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28395: 26.0.50; Electric pair: remove following > on Backspace after <
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:56:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgr7d0r6.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pob0cxvp.fsf@rose> (Mohammed Sadiq's message of "Sat, 09 Sep 2017 09:43:46 +0530")

Mohammed Sadiq <sadiq@sadiqpk.org> writes:

> In c-mode (and may be in derived modes too) it would be nice if
> electric-pair-mode removes following '>' (if any) on deleting '<' with
> backspace by default.
>
> Say for example, in the following code (| is the `point'):
>     #include <|>
>
> a backspace would result in:
>     #include |

I think this sounds like it would be very difficult to get right without
too many false positives...  and it seems beyond the remit of this
mode.  I mean, the mode doesn't even do this for normal parenthesis.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-15 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-09  4:13 bug#28395: 26.0.50; Electric pair: remove following > on Backspace after < Mohammed Sadiq
2019-07-15 10:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-07-15 12:25   ` Noam Postavsky
2019-07-15 12:28     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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