On 2015-04-12, at 17:30, Mosè Giordano <m...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hi Marcin! > > 2015-04-12 17:13 GMT+02:00 Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl>: >> Hello all, >> >> I have just subscribed to this list, so I'd like to say hello and thanks >> for AUCTeX! >> >> I'm a long time TeX user (about 20 years) and Emacs user (about 15 >> years). I've been using AUCTeX since I started using Emacs itself. >> >> However, there are quite a few things missing in AUCTeX which I'd like >> to have. One is movement by TeX tokens, another one is matching >> \bigl..\bigr and friends, and there are more. > > With "matching \bigl..\bigr" do you mean something like > `show-paren-mode' or auto insertion of the matching parenthesis? We > have the last feature since 11.88, but you're probably already ware of > it.
Wow, I didn't know that - but anyway, I meant something like show-paren-mode, and - more importantly - intelligent changing (both sides) e.g. between \bigl..\bigr, \Bigl..\Bigr etc. >> I have a good knowledge of (La)TeX, Emacs and Elisp, and I'd like to >> help implementing these things (and in general, working on AUCTeX). >> I don't have very much spare time, but I can definitely spend a few >> hours a week on AUCTeX. >> >> What should I do to help? > > That would be great! As you may know, AUCTeX is a GNU project and as > such we require contributors to assign copyright to FSF. If you are > willing to do so and release your contributions under the terms of > GPLv3, then fill this form Oh. This probably settles the thing. I had some hope that AUCTeX is outside the scope of this FSF-papers insanity. I don't have those papers signed, and unless there is some serious change (either in FSF, or in my ethical standpoint - either one is possible, but not very likely), I'm afraid I cannot sign them. > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/doc/Copyright/request-assign.future > > and follow the instructions in the header. Keep in mind an assignment > for the AUCTeX package covers only contributions to AUCTeX, but > assignment for the Emacs package covers both Emacs and AUCTeX (and any > other package included in GNU Elpa repository). > > After this, just submit to this mailing list your patches against the > current git version and we will discuss about them ;-) Now I'm wondering. Technically, I /could/ fork AUCTeX, but this does not seem to make sense. Probably the best thing I can do now is to develop my library, built on top of AUCTeX, to implement things I'd like to have. Of course, I /will/ share my code on the Internet, and I'll probably release it on some kind of open-source (or even free-as-in-FSF) license. Another, technical question is: assuming that I develop some AUCTeX-based utilities (=elisp functions), does it make sense to write about them here? I do not want to give an impression that I'm somehow hostile towards AUCTeX developers (I'm not), or that I want to compete against them (I don't, and even if I did, I'm probably not competent enough to do it successfully anyway). The problem is that I'm /very/ critical towards the FSF (to the point that I do not want the FSF to be in posession of any piece of paper with my personal signature). > Bye, > Mosè Best regards, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list auctex-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel