Good morning everyone! First of all: thank you for your ongoing support in writing this cool software.
I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Jan, I am an old timer, using Emacs since version 18. Soon after that I was introduced to LaTeX (being still 2.09) and short after that to AUCTeX (on Emacs-19.2 or 19.3 if I recall correct.) Since those days I have rarely used anything else, to write my LaTeX files. Occasionally TeXnicCenter or TeXStudio, when I am giving LaTeX courses. After leaving university---well, that phrase is not correct, I never left university, as I am staff member till today. How about that: after finishing my Diploma and being in the business the opportunities to use LaTeX and Emacs declined, as was to expect, but there were always some special fields. I am enthusiast Emacs user, prefer free software wherever I can, but please don’t blame me, that my employer was so kind, to provide me a MacOS based computer. (The only other choice would have been a Windows based computer with massive restricted account and no admin permissions …) Most time of the day I am working on MacOS, its fine, its reliable and it very much Unix like, which is OK to me. At the time of writing this, I have a real bunch of small projects, which will eventually come together some day. Most of the projects are related to the creation of LaTeX based style files. Instead of just writing them as quick and dirty as well as undocumented style files, I am now digging into Doc and Docstrip (and even LaTeX3). This is the reason, why I joined this list. Somethings rotten in my system (although it is not danish ;-)). I was able to start a clean Emacsen (v27.2 of Nov. 2021). I used options —no-init-file and —no-site-file to start Emacs. In scratch buffer I added and evaled (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-13.1.1") (load "auctex.el" nil t t) only to find out, that it looks exactly the same, as if I had started Emacs and loaded my full-grown ~/.emacs file with 20+ years of adding more and more functions. Most noteably and in contrast to one of the screenshots, you offer on the official AUCTeX site (https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/img/auctex-screenshot-doctex.png) my buffer looks crooked. The grey background color on the documentation parts in my buffer only stretches as far, as the text line goes. That makes the look very flimsy? (I can provide a screenshot, if thats OK for you?) Also, a lot of usual DocTeX commands are unknown and have to be typed in completely by hand (i.e. no auto- completion). For example, I always have to type in `C-c C-e macrocode RET’. Although AUCTeX pretends to not know this environment, it is inserted almost correctly, i.e. the `% \begin{macrocode}’ and `% \end{macrocode’ blocks are inserted. But I am a bit disappointed, that the line between begin and end still has the percent sign, which should definitely not be there in the first place. So before opening a bug report, which later turns out to be evidence of my stupidity, I’d thought, I’d ask here for some advice. Bye Jan -- Jan Braun (er/ihm, he/him) [email protected] === ypchsh /usr/local/bin/emacs === go FORTH now … ===
