Here's a patch that implements the changes described in my previous
message. It defaults to the current behaviour.
Andrea
--- electric--v28.1.el 2022-08-02 14:41:09.578483586 +0200
+++ electric--modified.el 2022-08-02 14:47:17.712875776 +0200
@@ -534,6 +534,11 @@
:version "26.1"
:type 'boolean :safe #'booleanp :group 'electricity)
+(defcustom electric-quote-replace-consecutive t
+ "Non-nil means to replace two consecutive electric single quotes
+with the corresponding (opening or closing) double quote."
+ :type 'boolean :safe #'booleanp :group 'electricity)
+
(defvar electric-quote-inhibit-functions ()
"List of functions that should inhibit electric quoting.
When the variable `electric-quote-mode' is non-nil, Emacs will
@@ -586,7 +591,8 @@
(memq (char-syntax (char-before))
'(?\s ?\())))
(setq backtick ?\')))
- (cond ((search-backward (string q< backtick) (- (point) 2) t)
+ (cond ((and electric-quote-replace-consecutive
+ (search-backward (string q< backtick) (- (point) 2) t))
(replace-match (string q<<))
(when (and electric-pair-mode
(eq (cdr-safe
@@ -600,7 +606,8 @@
((search-backward "\"" (1- (point)) t)
(replace-match (string q<<))
(setq last-command-event q<<)))
- (cond ((search-backward (string q> ?') (- (point) 2) t)
+ (cond ((and electric-quote-replace-consecutive
+ (search-backward (string q> ?') (- (point) 2) t))
(replace-match (string q>>))
(setq last-command-event q>>))
((search-backward "'" (1- (point)) t)