Hi Arash, thank you for your interest. And apologies: I got completely confused.
Indeed the punctuation behaviour in 14.2.0 is the one I want, especially with
word-killing. I just realized this in these past minutes while writing a tex
document. I hadn't been writing in several months, and the warning about the
undefined expl3-syntax-table threw me off and I misremembered my preferences.
So nice that everything works nicely out of the box!
Apologies to everyone for this confusion and spam! 🙇🙇🙇
Kind regards,
Luca
On 260926 13:16, Arash Esbati wrote:
pglpm--- via General discussion about AUCTeX <[email protected]> writes:
It seems that AUCTeX by default treats colon ":" and underscore "_" as
word parts; more generally, 'backward-kill-work' will stop at ":" and
"_". A while ago, after some help here from Arash (see old emails
below), I managed to modify their syntax to "punctuation" by adding
these lines in my TeX-hook:
(modify-syntax-entry ?: "." LaTeX-expl3-syntax-table)
(modify-syntax-entry ?_ "." LaTeX-expl3-syntax-table)
In the last version of AUCTeX, 'LaTeX-expl3-syntax-table' seems not to
exist anymore (something in relation to this was discussed by Arash as
well).
`LaTeX-expl3-syntax-table' is still there, but expl3.el is now loaded
mostly with `docTeX-mode'. This is what I see in a regular .tex file:
character: : (displayed as :) (codepoint 58, #o72, #x3a)
charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
code point in charset: 0x3A
script: latin
syntax: . which means: punctuation
character: _ (displayed as _) (codepoint 95, #o137, #x5f)
charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
code point in charset: 0x5F
script: latin
syntax: . which means: punctuation
I was wondering how's the correct way to modify the syntax of ":" and
"_" in AUCTeX-latex buffers now.
That shouldn't be necessary. I presume you're using AUCTeX 14.2.0?
Best, Arash
