How to remove the matching character?

Question

I wrote a simple function, that makes emacs add matching quotes (so when I type ", I get "{cursor}"). But now, it's a major annoyance when I delete the first quote but the second is still remaining.

Is there a way to "listen" for character deletion events, and it the next character is matching the deleted one, delete the next character as well?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

There are existing minor modes for this. See AutoPairs at the EmacsWiki.

autopair.el has the specific functionality you're describing.

(electric-pair-mode in Emacs 24 does not, it would seem).

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