- Single quote after an alphanumeric character is an apostrophe.

- First attempt to behave nicely with an unbalanced quote.

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+*.sw?
+*.vba
+*.zip
+*.gz
+vimball.txt

Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+PLUGIN=delimitMate
+
+install:
+	cp -f doc/* ~/.vim/doc/${PLUGIN}.txt
+	cp -f plugin/* ~/.vim/plugin/${PLUGIN}.vim
+	vim -u NONE -c 'helptags ~/.vim/doc' -c 'q'
+
+zip:
+	zip -r pickacolor.zip doc plugin
+	zip pickacolor.zip -d \*.sw\?
+
+vimball: install
+	echo doc/${PLUGIN}.txt > vimball.txt
+	echo plugin/${PLUGIN}.vim >> vimball.txt
+	vim  -c 'e vimball.txt' -c '%MkVimball! ${PLUGIN}' -c 'q'

plugin/delimitMate.vim

@@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ function! s:Init() "{{{1
 	endif " }}}
 
 	if !exists("b:delimitMate_apostrophes") && !exists("g:delimitMate_apostrophes") " {{{
-		let s:apostrophes = split("n't:'s:'re:'m:'d:'ll:'ve:s'",':')
+		"let s:apostrophes = split("n't:'s:'re:'m:'d:'ll:'ve:s'",':')
+		let s:apostrophes = []
 
 	elseif exists("b:delimitMate_apostrophes")
 		let s:apostrophes = split(b:delimitMate_apostrophes)
@@ -170,7 +171,7 @@ function! s:Init() "{{{1
 	call s:ExtraMappings()
 	let b:loaded_delimitMate = 1
 
-endfunction "}}}1
+endfunction "}}}1 Init()
 
 function! s:ValidMatchpairs(str) "{{{1
 	if a:str !~ '^.:.\(,.:.\)*$'
@@ -229,6 +230,13 @@ function! s:QuoteDelim(char) "{{{1
 	if line[col - 2] == "\\"
 		" Seems like a escaped character, insert a single quotation mark.
 		return a:char
+	elseif line[col - 2] == a:char && line[col - 1 ] != a:char
+		" Seems like we have an unbalanced quote, insert a single
+		" quotation mark.
+		return a:char."\<Left>"
+	elseif a:char == "'" && line[col -2 ] =~ '[a-zA-Z0-9]'
+		" Seems like we follow a word, insert an apostrophe.
+		return a:char
 	elseif line[col - 1] == a:char
 		" Get out of the string.
 		return "\<Right>"