bug#71337: 30.0.50; `electric-pair-mode' and custom keybinding

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

On Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:56:25 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org,  João Távora
>>  <joaotavora@gmail.com>,  Stefan
>>  Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>,
>>   71337@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:09:09 +0200
>> 
>> > Which means the patch proposed by Stephen is not TRT, because it means
>> > electric-pair-mode will ignore the inserted backslashes.
>> 
>> My patch should only make electric-pair-mode ignore key sequences which
>> don't satisfy characterp, e.g. "s-#" or "C-#".  I just tested my patch
>> after giving ?\ open parenthesis syntax, binding it to "C-#" and
>> enabling electric-pair-mode, and what I see is that typing `C-#' inserts
>> a "\" while typing `\' insert "\\".  Is this not the desired behavior?
>
> No, I don't think it's the desired behavior.  A command that invokes
> self-insert-command internally most probably expects all the side
> effects of self-insert-command to happen as if the character was
> actually typed.  Otherwise, why use self-insert-command instead of,
> say, insert?

Ok.  It seems I misunderstood the issue, so my patch is irrelevant.

Steve Berman