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From: Jeremiah Dodds <jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com>
To: Laurent Hoeltgen <hoeltgman@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: electric pair mode and latex
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:41:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zk7yp33e.fsf@friendface.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE17A7A.8060504@gmail.com> (Laurent Hoeltgen's message of "Wed,  20 Jun 2012 09:23:38 +0200")

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) ? 



  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-20 12:41 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 [this message]
2012-06-21  3:16       ` Laurent Hoeltgen
2012-06-20 13:58 ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found] <mailman.3091.1340170870.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-20 16:15 ` Stefan Monnier

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