From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: joaotavora@gmail.com (João Távora)
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs pretest -- electric-pair-mode change
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:15:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761mqfw38.fsf@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jjbtxabve8x.fsf@siscog.pt> ("João Távora"'s message of "Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:21:34 +0100")
joaotavora@gmail.com (João Távora) writes:
> This last behaviour is also arguable but it is "way too clever", almost
> buggy. The trunk's behaviour is better: it always inhibits pairing, the
> surprising electric action, whenever there is unbalance, and as such is
> more predictable.
I don't see what can be "too clever" about it. It's either buggy, or just
sloppy (as in: electric-pair-mode isn't aware of that specific case).
>>> Anyway I've haven't gotten little feedback for this feature, negative or
>>> positive.
I'm using it. I like it, and I've filed just one bug for it as of yet.
>> `electric-pair-mode' (even the old one) is not a commonly used option,
>> IIUC. This is largely because it's not enabled by default, many people
>> don't like/want such a feature, and those who do want it have many ways
>> to get it, many of which predate electric-pair-mode.
Since it's not commonly used, yet, any possible breakage introduced with
this change would also be less of a problem.
> But both being predictable, these users these packages are less likely
> to switch or even try electric-pair-mode if it feels alien or hard to
> predict, which IMO was *exactly* the problem with the "old"
> electric-pair-mode.
+1
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2014-03-31 13:27 ` Emacs pretest Stefan Monnier
2014-03-31 13:52 ` Bastien
2014-03-31 14:36 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-03-31 15:55 ` João Távora
2014-03-31 16:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-02 10:11 ` Emacs pretest -- electric-pair-mode change João Távora
2014-04-02 12:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-02 17:21 ` João Távora
2014-04-02 22:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-03 11:06 ` João Távora
2014-04-03 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-03 16:56 ` João Távora
2014-04-03 17:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-03 20:11 ` João Távora
2014-04-03 20:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-04 8:08 ` João Távora
2014-04-04 12:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-04 23:31 ` João Távora
2014-04-05 15:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-07 7:43 ` João Távora
2014-04-07 14:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-04 7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-04 9:49 ` João Távora
2014-04-11 14:42 ` Kevin Rodgers
2014-04-11 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-11 18:23 ` João Távora
2014-04-11 19:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-12 0:42 ` João Távora
2014-04-11 16:08 ` João Távora
2014-04-03 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-03 12:15 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2014-04-03 13:43 ` João Távora
2014-04-03 15:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-03 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-01 15:15 ` Emacs pretest Dmitry Antipov
2014-04-01 16:36 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-04-02 12:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-01 20:50 ` Stephen Berman
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