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

João Távora <[email protected]> writes:

>>> 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.
>
> electic-pair-mode doesn't care about paragraph boundaries, so I don't
> see 

Considering that it cares about fields, I do not see why the notion of
limiting where the pairs are matched should not be generalized.

I am wondering if it could somehow be done on syntax-ppss level.

>> otherwise the current paragraph.
>
> No.  Currently, delimiters match accross paragaphs and that's a good
> thing.  Think a number of paragraphs in quotes.
>
> BTW, In general electric-pair-mode shold work exactly as show-paren-mode
> does.  Any with-restriction fixes done to e-p-m should probably also
> apply to s-p-m.

+1

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