* David Kastrup (2005-11-23) writes:
> Ralf Angeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Usually `TeX-search-files-kpathsea' is called through
>> `TeX-search-files' and `TeX-search-files' accepts only a list of
>> extensions, not some abstraction of it.
>
> I am afraid I don't get your point. What "abstraction" are you
> talking about?
Something like a format specifier as used for the first element of the
items of `TeX-kpathsea-format-alist'.
>> So the _intention_ of `TeX-kpathsea-format-alist' is a mapping of
>> something like a format specifier
>
> There is no such thing "like a format specifier".
>From the doc string of `TeX-kpathsea-format-alist':
"Formats to search for expansion using kpathsea.
The key of the alist represents the name of the format. The
> `TeX-kpathsea-format-alist' just takes the first element of the
> extension list as a heuristic what to look for.
Hm, I find it confusing that a list of extensions is supplied to the
function where only the first one is used for mapping to some other
extensions.
>> to a file type and a set of extensions but the actual usage differs.
>
> The one thing that seems somewhat odd is that
> `TeX-kpathsea-format-alist' also provides an extension list again. I
> am not sure that the original extension list would not be sufficient
> for that purpose.
Maybe `TeX-search-files-kpathsea' should accept both a format
specifier and a list of extensions. The format specifier can be used
to reduce the number of directories to be searched. It would be nice
if it used the terms of kpathsea tools.
--
Ralf
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