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Re: Remove auctex from emacs
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uzibalqa |
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Re: Remove auctex from emacs |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Sep 2022 13:18:20 +0000 |
------- Original Message -------
On Monday, September 12th, 2022 at 12:16 PM, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
wrote:
> On 2022-09-12, at 12:01, uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me wrote:
>
> > ------- Original Message -------
> > On Monday, September 12th, 2022 at 7:16 AM, Marcin Borkowski mbork@mbork.pl
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 2022-09-11, at 21:19, uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me wrote:
> > >
> > > > How can remove auctex from emacs so that i can use tex-mode and
> > > > latex-mode ?
> > >
> > > Out of curiosity: why? Is there anything that AUCTeX doesn't do that
> > > the built-in tex-mode/latex-mode does? I never used the built-in mode,
> > > but I read its documentation (many years ago), and it seems rather
> > > simplistic. OTOH, I used AUCTeX for many, many years (at least 15 years
> > > - now I rarely do anything in (La)TeX), and it has always served me well
> > > (maybe apart from rather poor ConTeXt support, idk if that improved -
> > > but it still wasn't very bad).
> > >
> > > Best,
> >
> > Whatever it is, major-modes are not supposed to work that way.
>
>
> Not sure what do you mean. Worked for me for well over a decade.
> I assume it might bother you that it doesn't seem to have an entry in
> `auto-mode-alist' – but that makes sense given that the same file name
> pattern ("\\\\.tex$") corresponds to several modes (plain
> TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt/possible others, like AMSTeX). You could argue that there
> should be one major AUCTeX mode and plain TeX/LaTeX/etc. minor modes – but it
> is what it is, and I guess it's way too late to change that. Probably`
> magic-mode-alist' could help – but I have a hunch that it's
> more recent than AUCTeX' mechanism for major mode selection. (It was
> defined in Emacs 22.1 – I'm 99% sure AUCTeX was around much earlier.
> I seem to vaguely recollect the first Emacs version I used to be 21
> (±1), and I almost certainly attended a presentation about AUCTeX before
> I even used Emacs.)
There are too many tex and latex packages today, making the original design
quite inadequate,
particularly with the emergence of cdlatex.
- Re: Remove auctex from emacs, (continued)
Re: Remove auctex from emacs, Jean Louis, 2022/09/11
Re: Remove auctex from emacs, Marcin Borkowski, 2022/09/12
- Re: Remove auctex from emacs, uzibalqa, 2022/09/12
- Re: Remove auctex from emacs, Marcin Borkowski, 2022/09/12
- Re: Remove auctex from emacs,
uzibalqa <=
- Re: Remove auctex from emacs, Marcin Borkowski, 2022/09/19
- Re: Remove auctex from emacs, uzibalqa, 2022/09/19
- Re: Remove auctex from emacs, Marcin Borkowski, 2022/09/20
- Re: Remove auctex from emacs, uzibalqa, 2022/09/20
- Re: Remove auctex from emacs, Emanuel Berg, 2022/09/22