From: Laurent Hoeltgen <hoeltgman@gmail.com>
To: Jeremiah Dodds <jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: electric pair mode and latex
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:16:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE29210.9040701@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zk7yp33e.fsf@friendface.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
On 06/20/2012 02:41 PM, Jeremiah Dodds wrote:
> Laurent Hoeltgen <hoeltgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 06/20/2012 07:50 AM, Jeremiah Dodds wrote:
>>> Laurent Hoeltgen <hoeltgman@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> electric pair mode automatically closes parentheses like (,[,{,... Can I
>>>> customize this such that when I edit a latex document it also closes
>>>> expressions like \left( with \right)?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Laurent
>>>
>>> Yup, see 'electric-pair-pairs'
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> if I try to change this option (through the customize interface) by
>> adding \left( and \right) to the list, emacs complains with the
>> following message:
>>
>> Saving electric-pair-pairs: This field should contain a single character.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Laurent
>
> Sorry for the disinfo, I didn't actually attempt to customize it, only
> saw that it was customizable, and assumed that it would allow arbitrary,
> as opposed to single-character-only pair definitions.
>
> Perhaps you can get something working with skeleton-mode
> (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SkeletonPair) ?
>
Hi,
after a bit of googling I actually found this:
http://inthearmchair.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/automatically-inserting-matching-parentheses-for-latex-in-emacs/
which does exactly what I want.
Regards,
Laurent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-21 3:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-20 5:41 electric pair mode and latex Laurent Hoeltgen
2012-06-20 5:50 ` Jeremiah Dodds
2012-06-20 7:23 ` Laurent Hoeltgen
2012-06-20 12:41 ` Jeremiah Dodds
2012-06-21 3:16 ` Laurent Hoeltgen [this message]
2012-06-20 13:58 ` Andreas Röhler
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2012-06-20 16:15 ` Stefan Monnier
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