Electric-pair-mode lets modes choose how to skip whitespace

cc-mode.el-based major-modes with stricter syntax for invalid
NL-terminated strings might choose to have electric-pair-mode skip
some of whitespace into non-string-syntax regions, for the sake of
letting electric-pair-mode chomp that whitespace and make the string
valid again.

* lisp/elec-pair.el (electric-pair-post-self-insert-function): Call it.
(electric-pair-skip-whitespace-function): New buffer-local variable.
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João Távora 2018-06-19 02:18:43 +01:00
parent 5498acb5a2
commit 6353387835

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@ -155,6 +155,13 @@ return value is considered instead."
(const :tag "Newline" ?\n))
(list character)))
(defvar-local electric-pair-skip-whitespace-function
#'electric-pair--skip-whitespace
"Function to use to skip whitespace forward.
Before attempting a skip, if `electric-pair-skip-whitespace' is
non-nil, this function is called. It move point to a new buffer
position, presumably skipping only whitespace in between.")
(defun electric-pair--skip-whitespace ()
"Skip whitespace forward, not crossing comment or string boundaries."
(let ((saved (point))
@ -501,7 +508,7 @@ happened."
(functionp electric-pair-skip-whitespace))
(funcall electric-pair-skip-whitespace)
electric-pair-skip-whitespace)))
(electric-pair--skip-whitespace))
(funcall electric-pair-skip-whitespace-function))
(eq (char-after) last-command-event))))
;; This is too late: rather than insert&delete we'd want to only
;; skip (or insert in overwrite mode). The difference is in what
@ -509,7 +516,7 @@ happened."
;; be visible to other post-self-insert-hook. We'll just have to
;; live with it for now.
(when skip-whitespace-info
(electric-pair--skip-whitespace))
(funcall electric-pair-skip-whitespace-function))
(delete-region (1- pos) (if (eq skip-whitespace-info 'chomp)
(point)
pos))