Hi, I want to get some feedback on TeX-insert-dollar which will complete $ to $$ when in a $$-instantiated display math environment. Now $$ is not valid LaTeX anyway, but it is plain TeX, and some people might have an opinion on that.
I think we should dumb it down to just make matching to the last \$\$? (it would be conceivable to make the dollar matching in red if it does not yet match), but not complete. The reasoning is that $$ is pretty much equally easy to type as $, and will be done by people reflexively. I think it likely much more people are annoyed by $$ completion than if it would not happen. So what's people's opinion on $$ completion? It currently works like this in plain TeX (and also in LaTeX): $$ \sin(x) $$ ^type $$ ^type $ My idea would be to do at most some drastic syntax highlighting of presumably mismatching pairs, but not balk at inserting them: just accept what the user types and express any displeasure in the highlighting (at most) but nowhere else. Opinions? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
