Re: Behaviour of electric-pair-mode for single quotes

[Noam Postavsky]

On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 at 12:47, Pankaj Jangid <address@hidden> wrote:

> But in python-mode, there is a strange behaviour. Steps:
>
> 1. ./src/emacs -Q
> 2. open a temporary python file (or switch mode)
> 3. Following is the behaviour with keystrokes
>
> Key Strokes    Output
> '              '' <point before 2nd tick>
> ''             ''' <point before 3rd tick>
> '''            '''''' <point before 4th tick>
> ''''           ''''''' <point before 5th tick>
>
> Is this the expected behaviour?

I think it's intentional, remember that python supports triple quotes
as a string delimiter. See longstring in
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#literals