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

[Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

>> 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 adding 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))))

I see, I think you can get the same result with

    (add-function :before-until electric-pair-inhibit-predicate
                  #'electric-pair-conservative-inhibit)

But maybe it would make sense to add a third value to
`electric-pair-preserve-balance` to get the behavior you describe.

> 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.

Do you have an idea of how/where we could change some of the
documentation to avoid that kind of problem in the future?


        Stefan