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

["João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 10:22 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Implementing it would lead to deprecating
> > electric-pair-inhibit-predicate(should be still working though for X
> > major versions), and beyond this use-case there doesn't seem to be that
> > many other use cases for inhibit-predicates anyway. But this would give
> > us a lot more flexibility for whenever they appear, since this seems to
> > be the proper solution here.
>
> Stefan and João, any comments or suggestions?

I see some talk of multiple ORd predicates, and deprecating electric-pair-i-p
saying it's not flexible, and I don't think that's true.

I don't think it's a good idea to hardcode in some intermediate level of
just-what-I-want customization when there are already two levels:

- a relatively blunt customization-based one that fits a majority of users,
- a finer-grained powerful based on Elisp add-function one that fits
very specific
needs.

To me that's a good example of Alan Kay's “Simple things should
be simple; complex things should be possible.".

So I think it's a better idea to add snippet examples to the documentation
that describe how to achieve these complex things.

João