[AUCTeX] TeX-electric-escape Update ?

[Adam Johnson]

Hi,

I like the TeX-electric-escape command, and set it in my .emacs as:
(setq TeX-electric-escape t)

In general, when I press "\", it will prompt a command I previously 
used/typed as a default option.   If I press "Enter", the previously used 
command will be inserted directly.  This is great.  If I press the "\" just 
before a space, then it will prompt " " instead of the previously used 
command.  I like this characteristics too.

Can we extend this characteristic to other LaTeX "special" characters:  "$, 
%, _, }, &, #, {"?  Sometime, we simply copy a piece of text from other 
non-LaTeX sources, these special characters will cause compilation errors.  
A quick method to fix the problem is to insert a "\" before each of them.  
We may also just forget to type the "\" before them until the compilation 
errors show.

My suggestion is: if the mouse cursor is just put before one of the special 
characters (same as before a space), instead of prompting for the previously 
used command, AUCTeX just prompts for an "empty" command.  So if we press 
"Enter" directly, a "\" will be inserted before these special characters 
instead of the previously used command.  (This issue bothers me many times.)

Thanks.

--
Adam

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