Electric braces

[Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com>]

Hi,

When using 'electric braces' in Visual Studio, MonoDevelop and other
tools, I like the behaviour where the closing brace is auto-detected.

(In the example, I show the insertion point as a bar)
If I type

if (|

the screen shows

if (|)

I then key in my test expression, say isFalse (or whatever):

if (isFalse|)

At this point, Visual studio and MonoDevelop realise that the next ')'
key I hit, really represents the ')' which is already there. It does not
add an additional ')' :

if (isFalse)|

But in Emacs, currently using cperl, but also when using c#-mode, or
IIRC ruby-mode, emacs does add an additional ')' which leads to
following erroneous code:

if (isFalse)|)

I am pretty cinfident that Emacs can mimic the VS/MD behaviour. I just
did not find yet how to request it from good old Emacs.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,




Guido

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