Re: [ELPA] some tex-related packages

[Paul Nelson]

Hi Philip,

> > (and (fboundp 'avy-jump)
> >     (require 'avy nil t)
> >     (fboundp 'avy-jump))
>
> I should have explained that, my idea was to check if avy-jump was
> actually made available by the `require' or not.  But I wouldn't
> describe it as an idiom, or an elegant solution.  All I wanted to avoid
> was that loading avy by hand is required after installing it as well.

I agree that we should not assume avy has been loaded by hand or
otherwise, but would have thought that the following would achieve the
same:

(and (require 'avy nil t)
     (fboundp 'avy-jump))

> You were using both cl- and seq- functions.  I was suggesting to make
> that explicit by `require'ing them as well.  IIRC the code using seq-
> and the code cl- functions could have also respectively been written in
> the other style, so I thought it wouldn't be bad to stick to one of the
> two inside a single package.

OK, gotcha (and indeed, I tweaked my code to just use seq).

> Other than that, we can add the packages to ELPA, right?

They're already on ELPA, which achieves my main goal of enabling
colleagues to set them up and use them with a simple config.

There was the question raised in
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-06/msg00959.html
of whether tex-parens could be included in Emacs alongside tex-mode,
so as to be more available and simpler to document.  The answer is
certainly "yes", although I don't know who decides whether that should
be done.

There's also the question, discussed earlier in this thread, of
whether some would fit better in AUCTeX, but I imagine I'll sort that
out with Arash and co. on the AUCTeX list at some point.

Thanks again and best,

Paul