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

[Tom Willemse <tom@ryuslash.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I'd like to disable electric-pair-mode in certain buffers.
>> Probably the most important example is the minibuffer.
>
>> Incremental searching with eletric-pairing is frustrating as opposed to
>> being helpful as the search is "temporarily broken" as soon as the pair
>> is inserted.
>
> [ I'm curious to know more about those isearch and minibuffer cases
>   because I haven't bumped into them.  Not that it makes any difference
>   to the following.  ]
>
>> I made eletric-pair-mode nil/buffer-local in the hooks that I need,
>> but somehow I feel electric-pair-mode should be a regular minor mode.
>
> Hmm, electric-pair-mode *is* a regular minor mode.  Maybe you mean
> that it should be buffer-local because you'd only want to enable it in
> a few specific major modes?
>
> We could very well define an electric-pair-local-mode, like we did with
> electric-indent-local-mode.  In the mean time, you should be able to
> hack it with something like:

Not to be a nuisance, but I wrote a patch for that some time ago and I'm
still waiting on a response:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=19528

I've been using it since long before I sent it in and it's basically
just a copy of the `electric-indent-local-mode' code (comments and all).


Regards,

Tom