Insert closing delimiter char(s), i.e. parenthesis, bracket(s), brace(s) or whatever is needed - think of syntactic consequence.

Honor multi-char pairs like triplequoted string, padding and escape-sequences.

For example when called at the end of an open string like

"\(^ *\|^Foo: *\|\( BAR\|'s\|Bad\|BAZ\|Bnter\(?: \(?:\(?:sam\|th

C-u M-x syntactic-close RET should result in

"\(^ *\|^Foo: *\|\( BAR\|'s\|Bad\|BAZ\|Bnter\(?: \(?:\(?:sam\|th\)\)\)\)\)"

That way continuation may be inserted by just one key.

Sometimes language-specific treatment is needed.

Currently supports the following modes:

agda2-mode emacs-lisp-mode html-mode js-mode mhtml-mode nxml-mode org-mode php-mode python-mode ruby-mode sgml-mode web-mode xml-mode xxml-mode

Feel free to file a feature request should your favourite mode not being mentioned.

A first draft was proposed at emacs-devel mailing-list: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-09/msg00512.html