Re: electric-pair mode, comint, and text attribution

Related, if not exactly the same issue: bug#50236

On Fri,  3 Jul 2026, Andrew Hyatt wrote:

> Stefan Monnier via "Emacs development discussions." <[email protected]> writes: 
>
>  Perhaps this is just a bug and I should report it as a bug, but I think if I did so, it'd
>  probably be closed as working as intended. In a way, it is. Electric pair mode is
>  doing what is says it would do. However, I think it'd be better if comint-mode and
>  similar modes would track, probably with overlays, which parts of the buffer are
>  definitely known to be generated, and those parts are excluded from electric-pair
>  mode. 
>
>  I think this is indeed just a bug (or a missing feature) in electric-pair-mode. 
>
>  The bug might arguably be in the corresponding modes for failing to tell
>  `electric-pair-mode` how it should behave. Tho it may also be a bug in
>  `electric-pair-mode` for failing to offer appropriate hooks. I recommend you `M-x
>  report-emacs-bug`. 
>
> I'll do that. However, I think the design decisions are interesting, and spill beyond just
> electric-pair-mode for the reasons I've mentioned above; I'd rather think about a fix that
> solves this in a way that enhances Emacs more generally. I'm happy to write a more
> specific proposal if there's interest in the problem, and I'll mention that in the bug report.
>
>  = Stefan