Re: Remove auctex from emacs

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2022-09-19, at 19:35, uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me> wrote:

>> > > 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). 
>
> Correct, that it disregards `auto-mode-alist'.
>
>> > > You could argue that there should be one major AUCTeX mode and plain 
>> > > TeX/LaTeX/etc. minor
>> > > modes – 
>
> As there can be many modes, one mode should not take over any other mode.

I didn't understand this.

>> > > but it is what it is, and I guess it's way too late to change that. 
>
> This is where we disagree.  There is never a time to say it is too late to 
> change.
> When it is time to change, the change should be made to happen.

Well, it is probably a major overhaul of the whole codebase.  Which
means you need substantial effort for little gain (in the sense that
most users - or so I think - are satisfied with the current approach).
Such major changes are much easier when the codebase is young, hence my
"too late" comment.

Perhaps if you make a compelling argument for such a change on the
AUCTeX mailing list, possibly volunteering to help with that effort, you
might succeed.  Personally, I think that the time would be better spent
elsewhere, but this may be because I didn't think about this issue
deeply enough and cannot see too many disadvantages of the status quo.
Change my mind! ;-)

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl