Re: electric-pair-mode as a minor mode?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Seriously, while I won't stand in the way of having some
> `electric-pair-mode'-related default hookage in text-mode-hook, why
> isn't this fixed in text-mode's syntax-table? Aren't those wrong
> assumptions the real culprit?

I don't think so: it's very useful for text-mode to match parentheses
(even if it only works 90% of the time), so I definitely don't want to
change that (that would prevent using C-M-f and friends).  But code
shouldn't assume that syntax-ppss gives any kind of useful info in such
modes because in practice it's much too frequent for parentheses not to
be properly paired.

> But you obviously know this, so what do you have in mind?

The behavior of the old electric-pair-mode did not use syntax-ppss and
its `)' simply always skipped (if there was a `)' to skip, obviously).

The assumption was basically that it's easier for the user to hit ')' one
more time than to delete an extraneous ')'.


        Stefan