bug#19505: 25.0.50; Defining a chomp function breaks electric pairing

[Tom Willemse]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> The attached patch fixes the situation where a function `chomp' exists
>> and `electric-pair-skip-whitespace' has the value `chomp'.  Since that
>> specific symbol is mentioned as a special case for this variable, it
>> seems that it shouldn't try to call a function named as such.
>
> Maybe a better option is to use the value `:chomp' instead of `chomp',
> since defining a function `:chomp' should be considered an error anyway,

Certainly an option, but wouldn't that break people's configuration in
an annoying way?