Re: AUCTeX and "builtin latex mode" integration

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> You may have seen an on-going discussion about the annoyance of the
> mixups between latex-mode and LaTeX-mode and such.
>
> I do think it would be good to try and "integrate" the two modes, for
> some definition of "integrate".  The question being indeed what
> "integration" is the best way forward.
>
> I'm wondering if it would be possible to turn AUCTeX into a minor mode.
> E.g. `LaTeX-mode` would then be redefined as
>
>     (define-derived-mode TeX-latex-mode latex-mode ...
>       (AUCTeX-mode 1))
>
> and `TeX-modes-set` would add/remove `AUCTeX-mode` from the hooks like
> `latex-mode-hook`.
>
> To be honest, I haven't looked very much at the code to see how
> realistic this is, but I think this could help clarify the situation
> for users.  E.g. it would eliminate "lies" such as (setq major-mode
> 'latex-mode) in `latex.el`.  It would also mean that `TeX-latex-mode`
> runs `latex-mode-hook`.  There's no doubt that it would introduce some
> (presumably minor or easy to fix) breakage in some corner cases for
> some exotic configs, of course, but I feel like in the long run it
> might be worth it.
>
> WDYT?

Doesn't really seem to fit the conventions for major and minor mode
keybindings.

-- 
David Kastrup