David Kastrup wrote: > Piet van Oostrum <[email protected]> writes: > > > In AucTeX, latex.el (line 5871) contains: > > > > (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.dtx\\'" . doctex-mode)) > > > > However, AUCTeX's doctex mode is called docTeX-mode. So the line above > > causes the standard Emacs doctex-mode to be invoked, rather than AUCTeX's > > docTeX-mode. This is undesirable. > > > > The line should be: > > > > (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.dtx\\'" . docTeX-mode)) > > Why? It doesn't change the other modes either. The point is that they > are mapped to the AUCTeX modes on-demand, see > > > TeX-modes is a variable defined in ‘tex-site.el’. > Its value is > (tex-mode plain-tex-mode texinfo-mode latex-mode doctex-mode) > > Documentation: > List of modes provided by AUCTeX. > > This variable can’t be set normally; use customize for that, or > set it with ‘TeX-modes-set’. > > You can customize this variable.
Oops! That's tricky. > > > There is another thing. The documentation of docTeX-mode says: > > > > "Major mode in AUCTeX for editing .dtx files derived from `LaTeX-mode'. > > Runs `LaTeX-mode', sets a few variables and > > runs the hooks in `docTeX-mode-hook'." > > > > However, docTeX-mode-hook is never run. > > That's a possible bug. Let me see. > > docTeX-mode is defined with > > (define-derived-mode docTeX-mode TeX-latex-mode "docTeX" > ... > > in latex.el. The documentation of define-derived-mode states: > > The new mode runs the hook constructed by the function > ‘derived-mode-hook-name’. > > which is defined as > > (defsubst derived-mode-hook-name (mode) > "Construct a mode-hook name based on a MODE name." > (intern (concat (symbol-name mode) "-hook"))) > > Which very much looks like it should do the job. Do you have actual > evidence that it doesn't? I had put something in docTeX-mode-hook, and I didn't see much evidence of it happening. There was an error in it, but I did not get an error message. However, now you told me this, I looked in *Messages* and I saw the message there. So it seems to work. Thanks for updating me. You are never too old to learn something new. > > -- > David Kastrup -- Piet van Oostrum <[email protected]> WWW: http://pietvanoostrum.com/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] _______________________________________________ bug-auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-auctex
