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Article #99548TeX and LaTeX modes
From: ELF
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 1990 19:16
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 1990 19:16
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By examining tex-mode.el, I have discovered that these two modes use the same
keymap. Since TeX and LaTeX have very different commands, and I like
to make "electric keys" that do command-name completion and so on, this fact
is very inconvenient. I felt it was close enough to a bug to report to you
because the new E-Lisp manual states that "each major mode typically has its
own keymap" in the node Major Mode Conventions. This "bug" would be easy to
fix and would probably only make people happy.
Is there a separate mailing address for suggestions? If so, could
you let me know of it? If not, here is a suggestion: tex-mode.el implements
a particular (rather backward) heuristic for determining if a file is
TeX or LaTeX. I suggest that the bit of code that determines the file type
be replaced with a call to a hook. You could then supply the current heuristic
as the default for this hook, or even write a new, better heuristic for its
default. (I would be glad to submit my recommendation for a decent heuristic
for deciding whether a file is intended to be TeX or LaTeX input.)
Glen Whitney elf@ibm.com
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