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

[Marc Soda <marc@soda.fm>]

> That's a feature.
>
> 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 add 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))))

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.

Are there any improvements you want made here? Only asking because I currently have the context.

Thanks,
Marc

On Thursday, October 17th, 2024 at 12:48 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> 
> 
> > When using electric-pair-mode, electric-pair-conservative-inhibit
> 
> > doesn't respect electric-pair-preserve-balance.
> 
> 
> That's a feature.
> At least that was for me the main reason to have
> `electric-pair-conservative-inhibit`, i.e. so the behavior does not
> depend on the global paren balance of the whole buffer (both because it
> can be costly to compute and because it can be difficult to predict for
> the user).
> 
> IOW, why do you use `electric-pair-conservative-inhibit` if you care
> about preserving global balance?
> 
> 
> Stefan