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28.0.50; Wring pair-mode in m4 and similar modes

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From: Ergus <spacibba <at> aol.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50; Wring pair-mode in m4 and similar modes
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 21:58:14 +0200

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Using emacs to edit an m4 file I see that there is an issue recognizing
the corresponding pairs in some cases like when using "case".

For example:

```
[
case $word in
	i?86)
            something ;;
        bla)
            bla ;;
 esac
]
```

all the commands like forward-list or modes like show-paren-mode
highlight the parentesis after i?86 as the closing for the first
one. While the really closing one looks unpaired.

Try

emacs -Q file.m4
M-x show-paren-mode
yank the example code and go to [.
And see

In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 17, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.22, cairo version 1.17.3)
 of 2020-08-12 built on Ergus
Repository revision: fd6058b8fb07329bdd7d36cd05f4be1c5c691f9f
Repository branch: master
System Description: Arch Linux

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next-line: End of buffer [6 times]
Current locus from *grep*
Mark saved where search started
Show-Paren mode enabled
Making completion list...
Quit
Type "q" in help window to restore its previous buffer.
Making completion list...
completing-read-default: Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer
funcall-interactively: End of buffer

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Message #8 received at 42867 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Ergus <spacibba <at> aol.com>
Cc: 42867 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42867: 28.0.50; Wring pair-mode in m4 and similar modes
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:24:25 +0200

Ergus <spacibba <at> aol.com> writes:

> Using emacs to edit an m4 file I see that there is an issue recognizing
> the corresponding pairs in some cases like when using "case".
>
> For example:
>
> ```
> [
> case $word in
> 	i?86)
>             something ;;
>         bla)
>             bla ;;
>  esac
> ]
> ```

The problem is that "bla)" has a closing-paren character, and the
Emacs's sexp machinery doesn't seem to take into account what the
closing paren character is in these circumstances -- just that there's a
closing paren?

You see this all over the place in Emacs, but fortunately not many
languages use closing-parens like that.

Does anybody know whether there's any convenient way to fix the problem
here in m4-mode?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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