Emacs Web-mode left arrow without the right closing angle bracket

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When using Elixir html template (.eex) in web-mode, I sometimes need to type code like <%= for bid <- @bids do %> . At the moment because the opening left angled bracked is closed immediately with a matching right angled bracket, after I type <-, I’m left with a closing angled bracket that I don’t need and have to delete.

I need help coming up with a way to prevent the left angled bracket from auto closing.

Below is my current web-mode and smartpatens configs:

Web-mode

(use-package web-mode :ensure t :mode (("\\.erb\\'" . web-mode) ("\\.mustache\\'" . web-mode) ("\\.html?\\'" . web-mode) ("\\.eex\\'" . web-mode) ("\\.php\\'" . web-mode) ("\\.jsx$" . web-mode)) :init (setq web-mode-markup-indent-offset 2 web-mode-css-indent-offset 2 web-mode-code-indent-offset 2) ;; make web-mode play nice with smartparens (setq web-mode-enable-auto-pairing nil) ;(setq web-mode-enable-auto-closing nil) (setq web-mode-enable-current-element-highlight t) (setq web-mode-enable-current-column-highlight t) :config (sp-with-modes '(web-mode) (sp-local-pair "<" nil :actions nil) (sp-local-pair "% " " %" :unless '(sp-in-string-p) :post-handlers '(((lambda (&rest _ignored) (just-one-space) (save-excursion (insert " "))) "SPC" "=" "#"))) (sp-local-pair "<% " " %>" :insert "C-b %") (sp-local-pair "<%= " " %>" :insert "C-b =") (sp-local-pair "<%# " " %>" :insert "C-b #") (sp-local-pair "<-" "")))

Smartparens

(use-package smartparens :ensure t :hook (prog-mode . smartparens-mode) :init ;; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23789962/how-to-disable-emacs-highlighting-whitespace-in-parenthesis (setq sp-highlight-pair-overlay nil) :bind (:map smartparens-mode-map ("C-M-f" . sp-forward-sexp) ("C-M-b" . sp-backward-sexp) ("C-M-a" . sp-backward-down-sexp) ("C-M-e" . sp-up-sexp) ("C-M-w" . sp-copy-sexp) ("C-M-k" . sp-change-enclosing) ("M-k" . sp-kill-sexp) ("C-M-<backspace>" . sp-splice-sexp-killing-backward) ("C-S-<backspace>" . sp-splice-sexp-killing-around) ("C-]" . sp-select-next-thing-exchange)) :config (require 'smartparens-config) (sp-local-pair 'emacs-lisp-mode "'" nil :actions nil) (sp-local-pair 'org-mode "[" nil :actions nil) (sp-local-pair 'prog-mode "{" nil :post-handlers '((my-create-newline-and-enter-sexp "RET"))) (sp-local-pair 'prog-mode "(" nil :post-handlers '((my-create-newline-and-enter-sexp "RET"))))

Thanks.

PS: I posted this here Emacs Stackexchange in case you think you’ve seen it asked before.

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According to the documentation you have to use (sp-local-pair "<" nil :actions :rem).

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Thanks for trying to help but I get the error message File mode specification error: (wrong-type-argument consp nil) when I use the form suggested in your reply.

4

In the docs, all examples of sp-local-pair take the major mode as argument.

Though I’m not sure if thats obselete due to your use of sp-with-modes.

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Yeah in this case web-mode is the major mode but it’s not working for some reason. Any way thanks for trying.

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I’ve also noticed this in emacs, it is quite irritating, though expected, I’ve mostly got used to just typing <delete to get a single <. ^.^;

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How do you format keybinds like you do here in the forum? Never knew.

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<kbd> HTML tag, C is created via <kbd>C</kbd>.

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