bug#21595: 11.88.8; TeX help in Plain contaminated by LaTeX

2015-10-01 Thread jfbu
Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and what in fact did happen. The following TeX source file \def\foo{\begingroup\foo}\foo \bye when run from a TeX-mode Emacs/AUCTeX buffer generates on C-c `, after compilation has halted on a TeX capacity exceeded erro

bug#21595: 11.88.8; TeX help in Plain contaminated by LaTeX

2015-10-01 Thread Mosè Giordano
Hi Jean-François, 2015-10-01 7:24 GMT+02:00 jfbu : > Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and > what in fact did happen. > > The following TeX source file > > \def\foo{\begingroup\foo}\foo > > \bye > > when run from a TeX-mode Emacs/AUCTeX buffer generates on

bug#21595: 11.88.8; TeX help in Plain contaminated by LaTeX

2015-10-01 Thread jfbu
Hi Mosè Le 1 oct. 2015 à 14:06, Mosè Giordano a écrit : > Hi Jean-François, > > 2015-10-01 7:24 GMT+02:00 jfbu : >> Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and >> what in fact did happen. >> >> The following TeX source file >> >>\def\foo{\begingroup\foo}\foo >>

bug#21595: 11.88.8; TeX help in Plain contaminated by LaTeX

2015-10-01 Thread Tassilo Horn
jfbu writes: > A guru from the LaTeX3 team tells me it can't be the case, > thus my question is > >Does the message somehow come from AUCTeX ? > > Perhaps no, in which case sorry for the noise. Yes, the message comes from AUCTeX. The variable `TeX-error-description-list' is an alist of regu

bug#21595: 11.88.8; TeX help in Plain contaminated by LaTeX

2015-10-01 Thread jfbu
Le 01/10/2015 16:55, Tassilo Horn a écrit : jfbu writes: A guru from the LaTeX3 team tells me it can't be the case, thus my question is Does the message somehow come from AUCTeX ? Perhaps no, in which case sorry for the noise. Yes, the message comes from AUCTeX. The variable `TeX-erro

bug#21595: 11.88.8; TeX help in Plain contaminated by LaTeX

2015-10-01 Thread Mosè Giordano
2015-10-01 14:28 GMT+02:00 jfbu : > However you may keep this in mind if one day before the 22th > century LaTeX3 starts being widely used, perhaps that will > mean then a need for a complete rewrite of the format error > messages. I know some members of the LaTeX3 team are Emacs users, probably A

bug#21595: 11.88.8; TeX help in Plain contaminated by LaTeX

2015-10-02 Thread Tassilo Horn
jfbu writes: Hi Jean-François, > as I said to Mosè: perhaps in the future, some modifications could be > considered. Yes, absolutely. For example, it wouldn't require much effort to allow entries of the form (REGEX . FUNCTION) in addition to (REGEX . STRING). For such an entry, FUNCTION would

bug#21595: 11.88.8; TeX help in Plain contaminated by LaTeX

2015-10-03 Thread jfbu
Hi Tassilo Le 02/10/2015 13:25, Tassilo Horn a écrit : That would certainly be feasible. I just don't have enough (La)TeX knowledge to be able to judge which descriptions and hints are still relevant, which ones are outdated, and which ones are missing. So that's a point where you could help a