Stephan Hennig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup schrieb: >> Stephan Hennig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Native support for MetaPost with previewers GSview or AR (using >>> mptopdf) would be highly welcome. >> >> Well, but it is not really the business of AUCTeX. > > No. BTW, a question that may sound dumb, but what exactly is AUCTeX > in technical terms? Is it a major/minor mode (I don't think so), a > set of lisp macros with key bindings or something completely > different?
Major modes for plain TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, Texinfo and some off-the-wall formats. > The manual lists several features of AUCTeX. But I'm more > interested to know how AUCTeX integrates into Emacs at the technical > level (without going into details). The same question applies to > preview-latex. Is the latter a minor mode? Very much so, except that it isn't. Formally it may be viewed as some sort of extension to LaTeX-mode, and it takes major mode keybindings. Historically, it did nothing at all unless you called its functions (also via the keybindings), so a minor mode seemed sort of overkill. Nowadays, however, it also takes up menu space for its own menu, so one probably should at one point of time make it a proper minor mode. I am not too enthused about the prospects since it is not clear what should happen if you turn it off: should just the menu disappear, should the keybindings vanish, should the buffer be cleared from previews, just visibly or permanently? >> Except that it would be nice to have Metapost-style font locking >> inside of emp environments. >> >> But that is a different work area. > > I'm looking for the complementary feature: TeX-style font locking > inside btex..etex et al. (see the bug report mentioned in my > previous mail). Yes, that should be similar. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
