Emacs Electric-Pair-Mode

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"Type with electric pairs" 
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(electric-pair-mode 1)

Then customize:

electric-pair-pairs

This is a test

C-q will override if you want to type a single character
How to jump out of a pair?

(defun skip-to-next-whitespace ()
  "Move point forward to next whitespace character."
  (interactive)
  (skip-syntax-forward "^\s"))

(global-set-key (kbd "M-1") 'skip-to-next-whitespace)

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