Hi Werner,

>>>>> "Dr. Werner Fink" <[email protected]> writes:
>> As a sidenote, I really discourage letting AUCTeX parse all the .sty
>> files in your TeX distro.  The results will be more than questionable.

> What is the rational not to do this ...

Because it causes troubles for some cases. See [1] for example. AUCTeX
capability of parsing the .sty files is unfortunately much limited.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/r/auctex/2021-01/msg00037.html

> and why this is then possible.

This feature was implemented long before, in the days when huge TeX
distributions like TeX Live and MikTeX didn't exist. In those days, the
.sty files which ordinary users have in their global TeX tree were only
the ones accompanying standard LaTeX. I guess it was a good idea at that
time to make AUCTeX parse all those limited .sty files, where troubles
like [1] were unlikely to occur.

Regards,
Ikumi Keita
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