Re: [AUCTeX] Get Emacs' electric quote mode to work with AUCTeX and BibTeX mode

[gusbrs . 2016]

Hi all,

For the record, I was able to solve this issue for AUCTeX by debugging 
my init
file and find a workaround for BibTeX by getting a better grasp of
electric-quote-mode.

As to the problems with AUCTeX, the culprit was that I, when moving to
use-package, added the following to my init file:

    (use-package latex
      :ensure auctex
      :mode ("\\.tex\\'" . TeX-latex-mode)

      ... etc ...)

I don't really recall why I've set it to TeX-latex-mode. I've actually
researched quite a lot around to move AUCTeX to use-package, perhaps too 
much...

The fact is that either:

    (use-package latex
      :ensure auctex
      :mode ("\\.tex\\'" . LaTeX-mode)

      ... etc ...)

or, even simpler:

    (use-package latex
      :ensure auctex
      :defer t

      ... etc ...)

gets the job done and, with a working electric-quote-mode. I don't know 
why the
problem arose in the first place, but that fixed it.

As to BibTeX-mode, the problem is that electric-quote-mode is designed 
to work
only in paragraphs, comments and strings, according to the state of,
respectively, electric-quote-paragraph, electric-quote-comment and
electric-quote-string (the first two being t and the third nil, by default).

I don't know what Emacs considers a BibTeX buffer (not even outside an 
entry,
electric quote works). But, this suggested the following workaround. I can
comment the line of interest with "C-x C-;". With the line commented,
electric-quote then works. I edit the line to my desire, and uncomment 
it back
with "C-x C-;". That's less than optimal, of course, but should be 
enough for
the eventual case when a title contains quotes within it, which is the only
actual case I can think of where this is needed.

I thank those that gave their attention to the question, even if 
silently (As it
turns out, I didn't give you enough information to reproduce the issue. 
Sorry
about that). And thank you all for the great software.

Best,
gusbrs


On 19/10/2018 19:05, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> [Disclaimer: I've asked this question before at TeX.SE
> (https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/454912/105447) but, after due wait, I 
> thought
> it was worth to bring the issue to this list, in the hope anyone else 
> has any
> ideas or suggestions on the matter.]
>
> I've grown fond of `electric-quote-mode` in Emacs as a convenient way 
> to get
> curved quotes in my documents. However, I can't seem to get it to work 
> with
> either AUCTeX or BibTeX mode.
>
> I'm aware AUCTeX has it's own support for quote insertion, which is quite
> advanced, interacting with babel and so on. But I'm a `csquotes` user 
> and have
> in my preamble:
>
>     \usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes}
>       \MakeAutoQuote{“}{”}
>       \MakeAutoQuote*{‘}{’} % innerquotes
>
> Correspondingly, I have in my .emacs (under use-package's :custom):
>
>     (LaTeX-csquotes-open-quote "“")
>     (LaTeX-csquotes-close-quote "”")
>     (LaTeX-csquotes-quote-after-quote nil)
>
> I also have there:
>
>     (custom-set-variables
>       ...
>       '(electric-quote-mode t)
>       ...
>       )
>
> AUCTeX support for quotes works of course, but has some inconveniences 
> in my
> settings. First, it uses a different keyboard key for inserting quotes 
> (double
> quote for AUCTeX and backtick for everything else with electric quote
> mode). Second, I can't seem to find a way to insert curved single 
> quotes. Third,
> neither alternative works at all in BibTeX mode.
>
> For quite sometime, I thought this problem had to do with something in my
> document which got parsed by AUCTeX. Indeed, opening a blank buffer 
> and manually
> changing to LaTeX-mode gets me a buffer with a working electric quote 
> mode. But,
> in testing further, I don't think this is the case. Consider the 
> following
> minimal document:
>
>     \documentclass{article}
>
>     \begin{document}
>
>     \end{document}
>
> If I let AUCTeX parse this document, producing the following 
> `auto/test.el`:
>
>     (TeX-add-style-hook
>      "test"
>      (lambda ()
>        (TeX-run-style-hooks
>         "latex2e"
>         "article"
>         "art10"))
>      :latex)
>
> And then reopen it, `electric-quote-mode` no longer works (the 
> backtick key
> inserts a plain backtick).
>
> One possible source of conflict I considered is the math mode prefix, 
> which is
> mapped to the backtick key by default. But I don't usually enable
> `LaTeX-math-mode` and even setting `LaTeX-math-abbrev-prefix` to "'" I 
> still
> could not get electric quote mode to work.
>
> In checking the keymap to the backtik (C-h k backtick) I see that it 
> is mapped
> to `self-insert-command` in both LaTeX-mode and BibTeX-mode.
>
> I'm running Emacs 26.1 with AUCTeX 12.1.1.
>
> Any thoughts on why this happens and how I could get it to work?
> I thank you in advance.
>
> Best,
> gusbrs
>
> PS: I'd also welcome suggestions outside this framework. I might well 
> be looking
> at the problem from the wrong perspective.
>
> PPS: I'm not sure this is the proper place to ask about this issue 
> also in
> BibTeX mode. I suppose it is close enough that someone here might have 
> some
> ideas on the matter. But, if it's not, I'd appreciate pointers on 
> where would be
> more appropriate to ask.