bug#50236: 27.2; electric-pair-mode is inconvenient in comint

On Sat,  8 Aug 2026, Ihor Radchenko wrote:

> Augusto Stoffel <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I've added Ihor to the discussion since the issue affects Org mode as
>> well (see my email of 22 Aug 2022 in this thread).  WDYT?
>
> Why not using paragraph boundaries in addition to fields?

Interesting idea.  This makes a lot of sense for prose, but it would
severely disrupt electric pair mode for code.  Even in Org mode, the
right context to look for a matching delimiter would be the entire block
when inside a code block, otherwise the current paragraph.

I'm convinced that modes (or the avid user) should have a way to
determine the search bounds for a matching delimiter though a function
option.  In comint-mode that function would return the bounds of the
current field (modulo optimizations) but other modes would be free to
implement whatever makes sense in their context.