Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: > You may have seen an on-going discussion about the annoyance of the > mixups between latex-mode and LaTeX-mode and such. > > I do think it would be good to try and "integrate" the two modes, for > some definition of "integrate". The question being indeed what > "integration" is the best way forward. > > I'm wondering if it would be possible to turn AUCTeX into a minor mode. > E.g. `LaTeX-mode` would then be redefined as > > (define-derived-mode TeX-latex-mode latex-mode ... > (AUCTeX-mode 1)) > > and `TeX-modes-set` would add/remove `AUCTeX-mode` from the hooks like > `latex-mode-hook`. > > To be honest, I haven't looked very much at the code to see how > realistic this is, but I think this could help clarify the situation > for users. E.g. it would eliminate "lies" such as (setq major-mode > 'latex-mode) in `latex.el`. It would also mean that `TeX-latex-mode` > runs `latex-mode-hook`. There's no doubt that it would introduce some > (presumably minor or easy to fix) breakage in some corner cases for > some exotic configs, of course, but I feel like in the long run it > might be worth it. > > WDYT?
Doesn't really seem to fit the conventions for major and minor mode keybindings. -- David Kastrup
