Re: insert pair doesn't work with *, $ and %

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> In <mailman.1624.1165460982.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>>>>	Dieter Wilhelm wrote:

> For a special mode I'd like to have key bindings duplicating various
> characters like e. g.

> (global-set-key "\C-c{" 'insert-pair)

> this does work as expected (I'm getting a pair of {} and the point is
> within the pair).  But I can't get the analogous with *, $ and % to
> run, I'm just getting one of these characters back and not a pair.
> What am I missing here?

You need to add to the `insert-pair-alist' variable the pairs
corresponding to those keys.  For example:

(add-to-list 'insert-pair-alist '(?* ?*))
(add-to-list 'insert-pair-alist '(?$ ?$))
(add-to-list 'insert-pair-alist '(?% ?%))