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@c This is part of the AUCTeX Manual.
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@c Copyright (C) 2004-2006, 2008, 2009, 2013-2015,
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@c 2020-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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@c See the file auctex.texi for copying conditions.
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@ifset rawfile
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@include macros.texi
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@node Development,,(dir),(dir)
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@top Future Development of @AUCTeX{}
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@end ifset
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The following sections describe future development of @AUCTeX{}.
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Besides mid-term goals, bug reports and requests we cannot fix or honor
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right away are being gathered here. If you have some time for Emacs
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Lisp hacking, you are encouraged to try to provide a solution to one of
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the following problems. If you don't know Lisp, you may help us to
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improve the documentation. It might be a good idea to discuss proposed
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changes on the mailing list of @AUCTeX{} first.
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@menu
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* Mid-term Goals::
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* Wishlist::
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* Bugs::
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@end menu
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@node Mid-term Goals
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@chapter Mid-term Goals
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@raisesections
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@end ifset
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@ifclear rawfile
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@node Mid-term Goals
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@section Mid-term Goals
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@end ifclear
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@itemize @bullet
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@item Integration of @previewlatex{} into @AUCTeX{}
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As of @AUCTeX{} 11.81 @previewlatex{} is a part of @AUCTeX{} in the
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sense that the installation routines were merged and @previewlatex{} is
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being packaged with @AUCTeX{}.
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Further integration will happen at the backend. This involves folding
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of error parsing and task management of both packages which will ease
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development efforts and avoid redundant work.
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@item Error help catalogs
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Currently, the help for errors is more or less hardwired into
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@file{latex.el}. For supporting error help in other languages, it would
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be sensible to instead arrange error messages in language-specific
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files, make a common info file from all such catalogs in a given
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language and look the error texts up in an appropriate index. The user
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would then specify a preference list of languages, and the errors would
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be looked up in the catalogs in sequence until they were identified.
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@item Combining @samp{docTeX} with Ref@TeX{}
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Macro cross references should also be usable for document navigation
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using Ref@TeX{}.
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@item Fix remove-style feature
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Currently @code{TeX-remove-style} implementation isn't good. It is common
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practice that major mode functions directly add macros and environments
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via @code{TeX-add-symbols} and @code{LaTeX-add-environments}, but those
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macros and environments are lost once @code{TeX-remove-style} runs. It is
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necessary to run major mode function, by e.g.@: @code{normal-mode}, again
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to recover them, but that makes no point in running
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@code{TeX-remove-style} itself because major mode function kills all
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buffer-local variables.
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As of @AUCTeX{} 12.3, @code{TeX-remove-style} is no longer used by any
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other codes.
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@item Factor out syntax propertization from @file{font-latex.el}
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Syntax propertization is implemented in @file{font-latex.el}. This means
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that features which depend on syntax parse don't work well for
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@file{tex-font.el} users and those who disable font lock.
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Hence syntax propertization should be factored out from
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@file{font-latex.el} and implemented as a major mode facility.
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(Texinfo mode is an exception because it already has its own syntax
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propertize function, which just copies the one available in Emacs built-in
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texinfo mode.)
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@item Add documentation
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Following entries should be included in the document:
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@itemize @minus
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@item
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Variables @code{LaTeX-insert-into-comments}, @code{TeX-translate-location-hook}
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@item
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How to use @code{TeX-auto-add-type}, as well as functions and variables
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generated by that macro.
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@ifclear rawfile
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They should be covered in the node @ref{Hacking the Parser}.
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@end ifclear
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@item
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Usage of @ConTeXt{} mode
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@end itemize
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@end itemize
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@node Wishlist
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@section Wishlist
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@itemize @bullet
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@item Enable syntactic font lock for verbatim constructs in @samp{docTeX}
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mode
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In @samp{docTeX} mode buffer, @samp{%} sign at the line beginning hinders
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syntactic font lock of verbatim constructs. This should be improved.
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@item Simplify tool bar implementation
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The library @file{toolbar-x.el} was
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developed as an abstraction layer to absorb difference between XEmacs
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and @acronym{GNU} Emacs. Now that XEmacs is no longer supported, the
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library, together with @file{tex-bar.el} as a whole, can be much
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simplified (or even unified).
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@item Documentation lookup for macros
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A parser could gather information about which macros are defined in
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which @LaTeX{} packages and store the information in a hashtable which
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can be used in a backend for @code{TeX-doc} in order to open the
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matching documentation for a given macro. The information could also be
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used to insert an appropriate @samp{\usepackage} statement if the user
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tries to insert a macro for which the respective package has not been
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requested yet.
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@item Improvements to error reporting
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Fringe indicators for errors in the main text would be nice.
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@item A math entry grid
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A separate frame with a table of math character graphics to click on in
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order to insert the respective sequence into the buffer (cf. the
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``grid'' of @samp{x-symbol}).
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@item Crossreferencing support
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It would be nice if you could index process your favorite collection of
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@file{.dtx} files (such as the @LaTeX{} source), just call a command on
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arbitrary control sequence, and get either the @acronym{DVI} viewer opened right
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at the definition of that macro (using Source Specials), or the source
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code of the @file{.dtx} file.
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@item Better plain @TeX{} support
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For starters, @code{LaTeX-math-mode} is not very @LaTeX{}-specific in
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the first place, and similar holds for indentation and formatting.
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@item
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Page count when compiling should (optionally) go to modeline of the
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window where the compilation command was invoked, instead of the output
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window. Suggested by Karsten Tinnefeld
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@email{tinnefeld@@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de}.
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@item
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Command to insert a macrodefinition in the preamble, without moving
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point from the current location. Suggested by
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"Jeffrey C. Ely" @email{ely@@nwu.edu}.
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@item
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A database of all commands defined in all stylefiles. When a command or
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environment gets entered that is provided in one of the styles, insert
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the appropriate @code{\usepackage} in the preamble.
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@item
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A way to add and overwrite math mode entries in style files, and to
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decide where they should be. Suggested by Remo Badii @email{Remo.Badii@@psi.ch}.
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@item
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Create template for (first) line of tabular environment.
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@item
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@c FIXME: Already fixed?
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I think prompting for the master is the intended behaviour. It
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corresponds to a `shared' value for @code{TeX-master}.
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There should probably be a `none' value which wouldn't query for the
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master, but instead disable all features that relies on @code{TeX-master}.
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This default value for @code{TeX-master} could then be controled with mapping
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based on the extension.
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@item
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Use index files (when available) to speed up @kbd{C-c C-m include
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@key{RET}}.
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@item
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Option not to calculate very slow completions like for
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@kbd{C-c C-m include @key{RET}}.
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@item
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Font menu should be created from @code{TeX-font-list}.
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@item
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Installation procedure written purely in emacs lisp.
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@item
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Included PostScript files should also be counted as part of the
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document.
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@item
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A nice hierarchical by-topic organization of all officially documented
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@LaTeX{} macros, available from the menu bar.
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@item
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@code{TeX-command-default} should be set from the master file, if not
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set locally. Suggested by Peter Whaite @email{peta@@cim.mcgill.ca}.
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@item
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Make @AUCTeX{} work with @samp{crypt++}. Suggested by Chris Moore
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@email{Chris.Moore@@src.bae.co.uk}.
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@item
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Make @AUCTeX{} work with @samp{longlines}. This would also apply to
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@previewlatex{}, though it might make sense to unify error processing
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before attempting this.
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@item
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@c FIXME: Already achieved?
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The @samp{Spell} command should apply to all files in a document. Maybe
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it could try to restrict to files that have been modified since last
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spell check? Suggested by Ravinder Bhumbla @email{rbhumbla@@ucsd.edu}.
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@item
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Make @key{.} check for abbreviations and sentences ending with capital
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letters.
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@item
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Use Emacs 19 minibuffer history to choose between previewers, and other
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stuff. Suggested by John Interrante
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@email{interran@@uluru.Stanford.EDU}.
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Documentation of variables that can be set in a style hook.
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We need a list of what can safely be done in an ordinary style hook.
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You can not set a variable that @AUCTeX{} depends on, unless @AUCTeX{}
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knows that it has to run the style hooks first.
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Here is the start of such a list.
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@table @code
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@item LaTeX-add-environments
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@item TeX-add-symbols
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@item LaTeX-add-labels
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@item LaTeX-add-bibliographies
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@item LaTeX-largest-level
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@end table
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@item
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Outline should be (better) supported in @TeX{} mode.
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At least, support headers, trailers, as well as @code{TeX-outline-extra}.
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@item
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@code{TeX-header-start} and @code{TeX-trailer-end}.
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We might want these, just for fun (and outlines)
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@item
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Plain @TeX{} and @LaTeX{} specific header and trailer expressions.
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We should have a way to globally specify the default value of the header
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and trailer regexps.
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@item
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Get closer to original @code{TeX-mode} keybindings.
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A third initialization file (@file{tex-mode.el}) containing an emulator
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of the standard @code{TeX-mode} would help convince some people to
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change to @AUCTeX{}.
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@item
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Use markers in @code{TeX-error-list} to remember buffer positions in
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order to be more robust with regard to line numbers and changed files.
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@item
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Finish the Texinfo mode. For one thing, many Texinfo mode commands do
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not accept braces around their arguments.
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@item
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Hook up the letter environment with @file{bbdb.el}.
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@end itemize
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@node Bugs
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@section Bugs
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@c FIXME: Are those bugs still present?
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@itemize @bullet
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@item
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The style hooks automatically generated by parsing files for
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@file{example.dtx}, @file{example.sty}, @file{example.drv} and
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@file{example.bib} all clash. Bad. Clash with hand-written style hooks
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should be removed by dialect discrimination --- to be checked.
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@item
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@kbd{C-c `} should always stay in the current window, also when it finds
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a new file.
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@item
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Do not overwrite emacs warnings about existing auto-save files when
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loading a new file.
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@item
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Maybe the regexp for matching a @TeX{} symbol during parsing should be
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@samp{"\\\\\\([a-zA-Z]+\\|.\\)"} ---
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@email{thiemann@@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de} Peter Thiemann.
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@item
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@AUCTeX{} should not parse verbatim environments.
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@item
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Make @samp{`} check for math context in @code{LaTeX-math-mode}. and
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simply self insert if not in a math context.
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@item
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Make @code{TeX-insert-dollar} more robust. Currently it can be fooled
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by @samp{\mbox}'es and escaped double dollar for example.
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@item
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@c FIXME: Is support for table environment really necessary?
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Correct indentation for tabbing, table, and math environments.
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@end itemize
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@c Local Variables:
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@c mode: texinfo
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@c TeX-master: "auctex"
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@c End:
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