Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: preview-latex 0.9.1 and AUCTeX 11.whatever

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2005-04-01) writes:

> Jan-Åke Larsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> It does seem usable. It is just that I've been thinking things like:
>> "Why do we use 'sed' when we've had emacs up and running ~four times
>> already" and "Why are we shell-escaping lisp code all the time when
>> we could just fire up emacs -batch -l foo"
>
> If we didn't, then Windows users could not complain about having to
> install MSYS, and various Unix users would have nothing to complain
> about what breaks their multitude of shells.  We'd be all out of a job
> that is fun and rewarding.

As you are supportive of such ideas, why don't we just do that?  It
doesn't look particularly hard to rip the Elisp code out of
aclocal.m4, stick it into some sort of tex-install.el and call it from
aclocal.m4 with something like `emacs -l tex-install.el -f
my-funny-function'.

-- 
Ralf