How to disable emacs here document completion

Question

When editing a bash script file with emacs, and trying to enter <<<, at the second < emacs insert a template for a here document, like in the following example:

<<EOF

EOF

This is not the desired output, because I would enter a literal <<<.

For the moment I resort to entering < < <, and then deleting spaces, but I prefer to being allowed to enter it directly.

Answer 1

There is actually no need for Tom 's custom my-disable-here-document function rebinding the keys. This feature can be enabled and disabled with sh-electric-here-document-mode:

(add-hook 'sh-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (sh-electric-here-document-mode -1)))

(It can also be toggled for the active buffer via M-x sh-electric-here-document-mode.)

Answer 2

Bind < to self-insert-command in bash mode and then it will insert only the character.

By default it is bound to sh-maybe-here-document when in bash mode and that function does the auto-insertion.

Here is a way to rebound the key:

(add-hook 'sh-set-shell-hook 'my-disable-here-document)

(defun my-disable-here-document ()
  (local-set-key "<" 'self-insert-command))

Answer 3

If the only reason you want to disable the here-doc behaviour is that it prevents you from inserting a here-string <<<, then binding C-< to a function which contains (insert "<<<") will work, and still allow the auto here-doc template

(defun my-here-string() 
  "Insert <<< (eg. for a bash here-string)" 
  (interactive)
  (insert "<<<"))
(global-set-key (kbd  "C-<") 'my-here-string)

Answer 4

I enter <<< as M-3< in the shell mode.

Answer 5

Type < C-q < <

Answer 6

After taking a look at: http://web.mit.edu/dosathena/sandbox/emacs-19.28/lisp/sh-script.el I came up with this solution:

;; disable the automatic EOF generation in Shell Mode
(defvar sh-use-prefix nil
  "If non-nil when loading, `$' and `<' will be  C-c $  and  C-c < .")
(defvar sh-mode-map
  (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
    (define-key map (if sh-use-prefix "\C-c<" "<")
      (local-set-key "<" 'self-insert-command))
   map)
  "Keymap used in Shell-Script mode.")