Re: [AUCTeX] Adding curly braces in math mode

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> Also, does anybody know why
> `TeX-electric-escape'/`TeX-electric-macro' is implemented in a way
> that Emacs has to be restarted for a change of `TeX-electric-escape'
> to take effect?  If nobody objects I can change it, so that typing
> `\' will always call `TeX-electric-macro' (maybe renamed) and the
> function will then check the value of `TeX-electric-escape'.

I don't feel that is a good idea.  Wouldn't it break the TeX input
method, for example?

>> Furthermore I'm looking for a way to expand math operators with indices
>> to its last values.
>> Example: I typed $\sum_{i=1}^n ...$. Later I type `$\sum_' and now I want
>> AUCTeX to print `\sum_{i=1}^n '. How can this be done?
>
> Hm, isn't something like this only useful in special cases?

Well, special cases are nice, anyway.  Maybe it is something one could
teach that M-/ or so?

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