[AUCTeX-devel] Re: Can autctex support metapost?

[Stephan Hennig]

David Kastrup schrieb:
> Stephan Hennig <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> BTW, a question that may sound dumb, but what exactly is AUCTeX in
>> technical terms? Is it a major/minor mode (I don't think so), a set
>> of lisp macros with key bindings or something completely different?
> 
> Major modes for plain TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, Texinfo and some
> off-the-wall formats.

Ah, thanks.  Searching the AUCTeX manual for 'major' returned nothing,
which left me confused.  I suggest not only speaking of 'modes', but
'major modes' in the manual.  Or is 'mode' conventional Emacs
terminology for 'major mode'?

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig