Make characters behave like brackets

Hello everyone. I am trying to find a way to replicate the bracket behavior to the dollar sign symbols (just as if `$$` was something like `{}`). This is because I use `org-mode` to write math notes with a lot of latex sections and most of these latex "windows" are done by surrounding the piece of text with dollar signs. eg: `$\alpha\beta latex things$`. Of course the best would be to have a way of setting this to any kind of couple of symbols or symbol combinations. For example in latex it would be immensely useful to do it on `\{` and `\}`. Does someone know how to approach this? I use doom emacs if that matters, but I hope that a solution might be helpful to whoever needs it as well. Thank you a lot.

It depends on whether you’re using `electric-pair-mode` or smartparens or something else. If you’re using electric-pair, I thinj the variable to check is `electric-pair-pairs` but I’m not sure.

I checked now, `electric-pair-mode` is set to `nil`, but `smartparens-mode` is set to `t`. I guess that means I'm using smartparens.

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IIUC you'd probably want to look into using syntax tables. They're documented in the Elisp manual.

Update: This seem to be exactly how you do that (if you know how) if you use smartparens. https://smartparens.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pair-management.html#el.function.sp-pair Well, I don't know how to do that in doom emacs. I've tried putting this in my `~/.doom.d/config.el`: ``` (sp-pair "\{" "\}" :autoskip) ;; latex literal brackets (included by default) (sp-pair "$" "$" :autoskip) ;; latex inline math mode. Pairs can have same opening and closing string ``` And this managed to break everything, the elisp compiler seemed deeply disturbed by `:autoskip` and emacs stopped recognizing my org file as it (I edit the `config.el` file in org mode than `babel-tangle` it). So I've deleted the `sp-pair` commands. Any suggestions on where/how to do this `sp-pair` thing? Or if that's the right thing to do in the first place (must be, right?). I'd like to do all of that in the `~/.doom.d/confifg.el` file, because I want all of my configuration stuff clustered in one place in case I accidentally nuke everything everywhere.

Here it is: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Blinking.html So to have $$ behave like brackets I may want to do this: ``` (defun interactive-blink-matching-open $$ "Indicate momentarily the start of parenthesized sexp before point." (interactive) (let ((blink-matching-paren-distance (buffer-size)) (blink-matching-paren t)) (blink-matching-open))) ``` Is that right?

The documentation you posted doesn't have :autoskip in it. Where does it come from?

It was some option it's supposed to get, I'm sorry I don't remember

The documentation says `autoskip` is an action that should be used like this: (sp-pair "(" ")" :actions '(autoskip))