From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 12:00:56 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Add common pairs to defcustom for electric-quote-chars
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Add common pairs to defcustom for electric-quote-chars

* lisp/electric.el (electric--print-list-of-chars): New function to
display chars as chars instead of integers in a custom widget.
(electric-char-pair): New widget for displaying a pair of characters.
(electric-quote-chars-pairs): New widget.  Contains presets for common
combinations of left/right quotation characters
(electric-quote-chars): Update to use 'electric-quote-chars-pairs'.

* etc/NEWS: Announce the change.

(cherry picked from commit 62d6ba2ede95805ba309bdc538628eb49b331f03)
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 8325b5ef2d6..a0a98d2b797 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -120,6 +120,12 @@ function to the advice to remove.
 
 ** Emacs now supports Unicode Standard version 15.1.
 
+** New pre-defined values for 'electric-quote-chars'.
+The available customization options for 'electric-quote-chars' have been
+updated with common pairs of quotation characters, including "‘", "’",
+"“", "”", "«", "»", "‹", "›", "‚", "„", "「", "」", "『", and "』".
+The default is unchanged.
+
 ** Network Security Manager
 
 +++
diff --git a/lisp/electric.el b/lisp/electric.el
index fee0bf36d7f..d02bcb4735b 100644
--- a/lisp/electric.el
+++ b/lisp/electric.el
@@ -506,12 +506,64 @@ The variable `electric-layout-rules' says when and how to insert newlines."
   :version "25.1"
   :type 'boolean :safe 'booleanp :group 'electricity)
 
+;; The default :value-create produces "list of numbers" when given "list
+;; of characters", this prints them as characters.
+(defun electric--print-list-of-chars (widget)
+  (let ((print-integers-as-characters t))
+    (princ (widget-get widget :value) (current-buffer))))
+
+;; This is just so we can make pairs print as characters.
+(define-widget 'electric-char-pair 'const
+  "Electric quote character pair."
+  :group 'electricity
+  :format "%t: %v\n"
+  :inline t
+  :value-create #'electric--print-list-of-chars
+  :type '(list character character))
+
+(define-widget 'electric-quote-chars-pairs 'lazy
+  "Choose pair of electric quote chars."
+  :group 'electricity
+  :type '(radio
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Single" (?‘ ?’))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Double" (?“ ?”))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Guillemets" (?« ?»))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Single guillemets" (?‹ ?›))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Corners" (?「 ?」))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Double corners" (?『 ?』))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Low/high single left" (?‚ ?‘))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Low/high double left" (?„  ?“))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Low/high single right" (?‚ ?’))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Low/high double right" (?„  ?”))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Single inverted" (?’ ?‘))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Right single only" (?’ ?’))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Right double only" (?” ?”))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Guillemets inverted" (?» ?«))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Guillemets right only" (?» ?»))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Single guillemets inverted" (?› ?‹))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Mathematical double angle" (?⟪ ?⟫))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Mathematical single angle" (?⟨ ?⟩))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Double angle" (?《 ?》))
+          (electric-char-pair :tag "Single angle" (?〈 ?〉))))
+
 (defcustom electric-quote-chars '(?‘ ?’ ?“ ?”)
   "Curved quote characters for `electric-quote-mode'.
 This list's members correspond to left single quote, right single
-quote, left double quote, and right double quote, respectively."
+quote, left double quote, and right double quote, respectively.
+
+Commonly used pairs are predefined, or you can define your own
+completely custom style."
   :version "26.1"
-  :type '(list character character character character)
+  :type '(choice
+          (const :format "%t: %v\n" :tag "Default"
+                 :value-create electric--print-list-of-chars
+                 (?‘ ?’ ?“ ?”))
+          (list :tag "Predefined pairs"
+                (electric-quote-chars-pairs :tag "Single quotes")
+                (electric-quote-chars-pairs :tag "Double quotes"))
+          (list :tag "Custom"
+                (character ?‘) (character ?’)
+                (character ?“) (character ?”)))
   :safe (lambda (x)
           (pcase x
             (`(,(pred characterp) ,(pred characterp)