From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Insert character pairs Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 19:03:01 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87llkaq0ju.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87brlb1840.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083513993 9851 80.91.224.253 (2 May 2004 16:06:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 16:06:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun May 02 18:06:28 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKJU4-0001XU-00 for ; Sun, 02 May 2004 18:06:28 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKJU3-0003oJ-00 for ; Sun, 02 May 2004 18:06:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKJTk-00033S-OL for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 02 May 2004 12:06:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKJTb-00031S-9P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2004 12:05:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKJT4-0002kv-N6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2004 12:05:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.4] (helo=spork.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKJT4-0002kd-Ei for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2004 12:05:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-32-164-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.32.164]) by spork.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D497D11DC27; Sun, 2 May 2004 09:05:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Stefan Monnier User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22535 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22535 Stefan Monnier writes: > [ Let's make my suggestion more concrete, then. ] > >> +(defun insert-parentheses (arg) >> +(defun insert-double-quotes (arg) >> +(defun insert-backquotes (arg) >> +(defun insert-backquote-and-quote (arg) >> +(defun insert-apostrophes (arg) >> +(defun insert-square-brackets (arg) >> +(defun insert-curly-brackets (arg) >> +(defun insert-angle-brackets (arg) > > Using last-command-char or some such would allow you to define just one > command that does all those things. This looks like `skeleton-pair-insert-maybe', but perhaps to converge the functionality of `skeleton-pair-insert-maybe' and `insert-pair' is not a bad thing. However, they still have some fundamental differences like different text units (words vs. expressions) specified by their arguments. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/