> Could someone explain to me more clearly the justification/need for the
> latest patch to tex-mode:
> I give up.
> Someone needs to maintain tex-mode.el who can actually use it and test it.
I use it and I'm probably as close as it gets to a "maintainer" of that
file. I exclusively use tex-compile to run jobs, tho, and can never figure
out how to use the other thingies like tex-print.
> I can't. If you think it's the right thing to do to revert all or
> most or part of the latest patch, please do.
> Is it just a case of enthusiasm going a bit over and beyond the call
> of duty?
> I guess so. I really don't know any more.
> Or am I missing something?
> You probably aren't, but I don't feel competent to say.
> The story is, as tersely explained in the ChangeLog:
> 1) Olive Lin contributed a small change back in March that added the
> shell-quote-argument to tex-send-command.
> 2) More recently (May 18), Frederik Fouvry reported a problem with
> double quoting on tex-print. His original report used 8-bit chars
> in filenames, he later told me it happens with any non-posix-safe
> char, such as @.
> 3) Olive, Frederik, rms and I batted it around and no one saw what you
> did. For myself, I just said oh, well, here are more calls to
> shell-quote-argument, let's remove them. I didn't notice that there
> were different arguments involved.
> 4) Shoot me now.
Thank you. So my understanding seems correct: only the part (that removed
a double quoting in tex-print) was needed. I've undone the other changes.
Stefan
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