Default configuration

(note: this is a proposed change, not implemented yet!)

This is current default configuration of smartparens. The M-x customize-group smartparens settings are not listed here, as they can be easily viewed with the aforementioned command.

;; ban insertion of apostrophe (') in strings, as it is used as
;; contraction marker in many natural languages
(sp-add-ban-insert-pair-in-string "'")

;; Also disable it in common text modes
(sp-add-local-ban-insert-pair "'" '(
                                    fundamental-mode
                                    text-mode
                                    tex-mode
                                    latex-mode
                                    markdown-mode
                                    rst-mode
                                    org-mode
                                    log-edit-mode
                                    ))

;; emacs is lisp hacking enviroment, so we set up some most common
;; emacs modes too
(sp-with '(
           emacs-lisp-mode
           inferior-emacs-lisp-mode
           lisp-interaction-mode
           )
         ;; disable ' everywhere, it's the quote character!
         (sp-add-local-ban-insert-pair "'")
         ;; also disable the pseudo-quote inside code.  We keep it in
         ;; commends and strings for hyperlinks
         (sp-add-local-ban-insert-pair-in-code "`"))

;; markdown based modes
(sp-with '(
           markdown-mode
           rst-mode
           )
         ;; overload the `' pair with ``, which is used for inline
         ;; code in markdown
         (sp-add-local-pair "`" "`"))

;; LaTeX modes
(sp-add-pair "$" "$")
(sp-with '(
           tex-mode
           plain-tex-mode
           latex-mode
           )
         ;; allow the dollar pair only in LaTeX related modes.  It
         ;; often marks a variable elsewhere
         (sp-add-local-allow-insert-pair "$"))