Smartparens

Smartparens is minor mode for Emacs that deals with parens pairs and tries to be smart about it. It started as a unification effort to combine functionality of several existing packages in a single, compatible and extensible way to deal with parentheses, delimiters, tags and the like. Some of these packages include autopair, textmate, wrap-region, electric-pair-mode, paredit and others. With the basic features found in other packages it also brings many improvements as well as completely new features. Here's a highlight of some features, for a complete list and detailed documentation look in the manual.

For the complete documentation visit the documentation wiki.

Default configuration

The default configuration was moved into a separate file. If you wish to use the default configuration as a basis for your own additional customization, add:

(require 'smartparens-config)

in your configuration files (e.g. init.el) to load it. There are also files with additional configuration for specific modes, such as smartparens-latex.el. The usage is similar as with the default config. Note however that the smartparens-config.el file will auto-load all the mode-speceific customizations.

Support the project

If you want to support this project, you can do it in the following ways:

• Contribute code. If you have an idea that is not yet implemented and will benefit smartparens, feel free to implement it and submit a pull request. If you have any concerns whether your contribution will be accepted, ask beforehand. You can email the author or start an issue on the tracker.
• Contribute ideas. Even if you can't code Emacs LISP, you can still contribute valuable ideas for other programmers to implement. Simply start new issue on the tracker and submit your suggestion.
• You can make a financial donation through PayPal. I currently major in mathematics, having no full-time job as the school (and emacs :) eats most my day time. If you like smartparens or want a specific feature to be implemented and can spare a modest amount on a donation, feel free to do so. Regardless of the donations, smartparens will always be free both as in beer and as in speech.