Emacs php-mode and paredit

Question

I would like to use paredit in combination with php-mode, but it doesn't add a closing curly bracket "}". Might this have something todo with the fact that an electric brace is bound to "{"? And how could I overwrite this?

Thanks.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 14 '11 at 14:07

Some time ago, I wrote such a thing for C, but you can easily use it for PHP as well:

(define-minor-mode c-helpers-minor-mode
  "This mode contains little helpers for C developement"
  nil
  ""
  '(((kbd "{") . insert-c-block-parentheses))
)

(defun insert-c-block-parentheses ()
  (interactive)
  (insert "{")
  (newline)
  (newline)
  (insert "}")
  (indent-for-tab-command)
  (previous-line)
  (indent-for-tab-command)
  )

(add-hook 'php-mode-hook 'c-helpers-minor-mode)

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 16 '11 at 11:11

2

Using paredit is php-mode is a bad idea - it's mostly suited for Lisp code editing. There is a very nice alternative for general purpose development though - autopair-mode. It's very easy to use and inserts braces, brackets and quotes in a manner similar to the one present in most IDEs.

answered Mar 16 '11 at 11:11

Bozhidar Batsov

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I found `autopair-mode` horrendously slow when I had a large number of open buffers. `paredit-mode`, on the other hand, always feels snappy, which is why I use it everywhere. – Vicky Chijwani Apr 12 '12 at 18:48
Emacs 24 contains a new global `electric-pair-mode`, which might be faster? – phils Apr 13 '12 at 07:08
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Yep, it is. I've moved on from `autopair-mode` to the new `electric-pair-mode`. It's slightly less capable, but a lot faster indeed. – Bozhidar Batsov Apr 13 '12 at 07:15

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

In my experience, autopair-mode felt extremely sluggish when a large number of buffers were open (plus, paredit-mode ensures that delimiters are never unbalanced, unlike autopair-mode). So if, like me, you absolutely want to use paredit-mode and nothing else will do, have a look at this answer. In the elisp snippet given there, just replace slime-repl-mode-map and slime-repl-mode-hook with the corresponding variables for php (most likely php-mode-map and php-mode-hook)

Emacs php-mode and paredit

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