After unarchiving this bug just to add this commnet.

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From: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 11:57 AM
Subject: Caught mistake in elec-pair.el patch
To: 24901@debbugs.gnu.org, rrt@sc3d.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>


Hi Reuben,

Casually glancing at the source for lisp/elec-pair.el I have found an
error.

You cannot use lists like (nth 0 electric-quote-chars) inside a quoted list
as
you did in your patch of Nov. 8 2016. The list will not be evaluated.
Perhaps
you were distracted by the grim events taking place that day :-)

Anyway, I think you meant backquote-and-comma so I'll install this fix soon,
unless anyone objects.

João


diff --git a/lisp/elec-pair.el b/lisp/elec-pair.el
index 87e82e2..4ede4f1 100644
--- a/lisp/elec-pair.el
+++ b/lisp/elec-pair.el
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@
 ;;; Electric pairing.

 (defcustom electric-pair-pairs
-  '((?\" . ?\")
-    ((nth 0 electric-quote-chars) . (nth 1 electric-quote-chars))
-    ((nth 2 electric-quote-chars) . (nth 3 electric-quote-chars)))
+  `((?\" . ?\")
+    (,(nth 0 electric-quote-chars) . ,(nth 1 electric-quote-chars))
+    (,(nth 2 electric-quote-chars) . ,(nth 3 electric-quote-chars)))
   "Alist of pairs that should be used regardless of major mode.

 Pairs of delimiters in this list are a fallback in case they have
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ electric-pair-pairs

 ;;;###autoload
 (defcustom electric-pair-text-pairs
-  '((?\" . ?\" )
-    ((nth 0 electric-quote-chars) . (nth 1 electric-quote-chars))
-    ((nth 2 electric-quote-chars) . (nth 3 electric-quote-chars)))
+  `((?\" . ?\" )
+    (,(nth 0 electric-quote-chars) . ,(nth 1 electric-quote-chars))
+    (,(nth 2 electric-quote-chars) . ,(nth 3 electric-quote-chars)))
   "Alist of pairs that should always be used in comments and strings.

 Pairs of delimiters in this list are a fallback in case they have




-- 
João Távora