puppet-interpolate inserts braces then a dollar

[drewr]

Switched to this repo today, seeing odd behavior with puppet-interpolate. I type $ inside double quotes and I end up with "{}$". I don't want to have to type C-u $ all the time. Am I missing something?

[bbatsov]

You can always rebind $ to nothing. When I added this I assumed people would rarely type $ in double-quoted strings. I might have been wrong.

[swsnr]

@bbatsov I think the real issue is that he gets {}$ instead of ${}—what he should have got.

@drewr Does that happen in emacs -Q as well?

[drewr]

I type $ in double quotes a lot for combining strings, which is what I thought the feature was intended to ease. Anyway, when I run emacs -Q, it works fine (and is a useful feature!). I'll debug it on my end. I'm still finding things I need to migrate to 24.4, so it's probably a lingering incompatibility somewhere. Thanks!

[swsnr]

@drewr I reopened, because it's still an issue in Puppet Mode, imho. I don't think that any other package should break this specific feature.

Could you give me a list of minor modes that are active in your Puppet Mode buffer? C-h m gives you this information. Also, do you use Autopair, Electric Pair Mode, Smartparens, or a similar extension?

[drewr]

Sure, thanks @lunaryorn. I don't use any specialized editing tools with puppet mode. The closest I come is paredit, but I only use it with lisp-derived modes.

The closest thing I see in my minor modes here is maybe Electric-Indent, but it's there indirectly.

Enabled minor modes: Auto-Composition Auto-Compression Auto-Encryption                                                                                                                           
Column-Number Diff-Auto-Refine Display-Time Electric-Indent                                                                                                                                      
Erc-Autojoin Erc-Button Erc-Fill Erc-Irccontrols Erc-List Erc-Match                                                                                                                              
Erc-Menu Erc-Move-To-Prompt Erc-Netsplit Erc-Networks Erc-Noncommands                                                                                                                            
Erc-Pcomplete Erc-Readonly Erc-Ring Erc-Stamp Erc-Track                                                                                                                                          
File-Name-Shadow Font-Lock Global-Font-Lock Line-Number Mouse-Wheel                                                                                                                              
Recentf Shell-Dirtrack Show-Paren Tooltip                                                                                                                                                        

I also find that entering $ in various places causes all sorts of weird behavior, like point moving back to another $ in a totally separate context.

[rski]

@drewr if you do "C-h k $" while visiting a buffer in puppet-mode what do you get?
For what it's worth, i get "$ runs the command puppet-interpolate" in puppet mode and self-insert-command in other modes and its behaviour is fine for me in general.