Variable: insert-pair-alist

insert-pair-alist is a customizable variable defined in lisp.el.gz.

Value

((40 41) (91 93) (123 125) (60 62) (34 34) (39 39) (96 39))

Documentation

Alist of paired characters inserted by insert-pair.

Each element looks like (OPEN-CHAR CLOSE-CHAR) or (COMMAND-CHAR OPEN-CHAR CLOSE-CHAR). The characters OPEN-CHAR and CLOSE-CHAR of the pair whose key is equal to the last input character with or without modifiers, are inserted by insert-pair.

If COMMAND-CHAR is specified, it is a character that triggers the insertion of the open/close pair, and COMMAND-CHAR itself isn't inserted.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 27.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp.el.gz
(defcustom insert-pair-alist
  '((?\( ?\)) (?\[ ?\]) (?\{ ?\}) (?\< ?\>) (?\" ?\") (?\' ?\') (?\` ?\'))
  "Alist of paired characters inserted by `insert-pair'.
Each element looks like (OPEN-CHAR CLOSE-CHAR) or (COMMAND-CHAR
OPEN-CHAR CLOSE-CHAR).  The characters OPEN-CHAR and CLOSE-CHAR
of the pair whose key is equal to the last input character with
or without modifiers, are inserted by `insert-pair'.

If COMMAND-CHAR is specified, it is a character that triggers the
insertion of the open/close pair, and COMMAND-CHAR itself isn't
inserted."
  :type '(repeat (choice (list :tag "Pair"
                               (character :tag "Open")
                               (character :tag "Close"))
                         (list :tag "Triple"
                               (character :tag "Command")
                               (character :tag "Open")
                               (character :tag "Close"))))
  :group 'lisp
  :version "27.1")