Re: AUCTeX and "builtin latex mode" integration

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 6:45 PM Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Ikumi Keita <ikumi@ikumi.que.jp> writes:
>
> > I attach a tentative patch to make AUCTeX major mode names not overwrap
> > built-in TeX modes. In this patch, the new mode names (value of
> > `major-mode') are
> >  - plain-TeX-mode
> >  - LaTeX-mode
> >  - docTeX-mode
> >  - Texinfo-mode
> >  - ConTeXt-mode
> >  - AmSTeX-mode
> > (There are additional renamed modes
> >    + japanese-plain-TeX-mode
> >    + japanese-LaTeX-mode
> >    + ConTeXt-en-mode
> >    + ConTeXt-nl-mode
> >  but they don't have their own `major-mode' value.
> > The name and role of `TeX-tex-mode' doesn't change.)
>
> Thanks for working on this, Keita.  I have to re-read the thread, but
> wasn't a point also that latex-mode and LaTeX-mode are also confusing to
> some users?  If so, can we think about coming up with mode names instead
> of camel-case'ing the built-in ones?

In fact, the latex-mode and LaTeX-mode are both the valid modes names
referred in the Emacs reftex manual:

(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex)   ; with AUCTeX LaTeX mode
(add-hook 'latex-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex)   ; with Emacs latex mode

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/reftex/Installation.html

Best,
Zhao

> > I think that its core functionality works as
> > expected. If you are interested in this feature, please give it a try.
> >
> > 1. I'd like to push it to savannah server as a feature branch of AUCTeX
> >    repository (it isn't ready to merge into master branch yet.) Do you
> >    think it's OK?
>
> Yes, please do so.
>
> > If so, I'm not sure how to do that so I'd like to confirm.
>
> I don't use magit, but you should be ok on command line doing:
>
> $ git switch feature-branch-name
> $ git commit
> $ git push -u origin feature-branch-name
>
> where -u is a shortcut for --set-upstream as described by Stefan.
>
> > (By the way, I have come up with only a poor name
> > "feature/distinct-mode-name". Please tell me another name if you find
> > a better one.)
>
> I think we can live with that :-)
>
> Best, Arash
>