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Re: About LaTeX/TeX modes
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T.V Raman |
Subject: |
Re: About LaTeX/TeX modes |
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Mon, 8 Aug 2022 06:56:48 -0700 |
Could you say where/how you configured auctex to do the auto-insertion
of the mode setting?Arash Esbati writes:
> "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:
>
> > Not quite.
> > Getting auctex-mode defined modes to become operational feels more
> > complex than it needs to be
>
> For me, AUCTeX always inserts the mode into the local variables block
> when I open a new file like:
>
> %%% Local Variables:
> %%% mode: latex
> %%% TeX-master: t
> %%% End:
>
> or
>
> %%% Local Variables:
> %%% mode: latex
> %%% TeX-master: "other-tex-file"
> %%% End:
>
> so the complexity behind the scenes shouldn't be visible to the users.
>
> > and I've never understood (30+ years and counting) as to why Emacs
> > hasn't yet just made Auctex the default Tex editing package for emacs;
> > I note that we have adopted far newer packages as the default in more
> > recent times.
>
> Getting AUCTeX into Emacs is still a mission statement in the RELEASE
> file[1] which says:
>
> Future development and additional information
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of
> merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to
> assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual
> procedure for Emacs contributors).
>
> My personal view on this is that ELPA works fine for AUCTeX and the goal
> above isn't high on the todo list anymore.
>
> > Many years ago I made the following my default first line in .tex files:
> >
> > % foo.tex: -*- mode: LaTeX -*-
> >
> > and it works as in gets the mode from auctex -- but asking
> > describe-function about the mode still shows the one from the emacs
> > install, not from auctex.
> >
> > latex-mode is defaliased to
> > LaTeX-mode in tex-mode.el
> > Library is file
> > /usr/local/share/emacs/29.0.50/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.elc
>
> See above, a prop-line shouldn't be needed. But yes, AUCTeX loads
> tex-mode.el and builds its functionality on top of it.
>
> As a side note: I think tex-mode.el has still a user base, so replacing
> it maybe upset some people.
>
> Best, Arash
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/auctex.git/tree/RELEASE#n194
--
Thanks,
--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1 🦮
--
Thanks,
--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1 🦮
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