From: Benji Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Plain TeX support ?
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:16:00 -0400
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 06:54:29AM +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Looking into
> >
> > :help \<TeX\>
> >
> > does not that much information about the support of generating nice
> > and find documents via plain TeX.
> >
> > Where can I get informations about what I can
> > do/download/install/read to get a TeX-support a la AucTeX for Emacs ?
> >
> > Keep hacking!
> > mcc
>
> That is an odd looking use of :help . Perhaps you meant to try
>
> :helpgrep \<TeX\>
>
> instead?
>
> Note that the tex file type is for LaTeX and plaintex is used for
> plain TeX. See
>
> :help ft-tex-plugin
>
> if your plain TeX files are given file type tex. (I am assuming you are
> using vim 7. Correct me if I am wrong!)
>
> The default ftplugin/plaintex.vim does a few things: it sets
> options so that \input files will be recognized for include-file
> searches (:help include-search) and comments are recognized as such.
> What are the three features you miss most from AucTeX?
>
> HTH --Benji Fisher
>
After I wrote my first TeX-text without Emacs/AucTeX spontaneous I
would say the following things are missing:
A Keystrokes to insert {\bf X }, {\it X \/} and such where X marks the
cursor position after doing the keystroke.
B Interface to run TeX and a viewer (configurable) on the file one is
editing which ensures, that the file on the HD is uptodate.
C Defintions to automatically map "<word>" to ``<word>'' and to remap
- in my case - german umlauts to the TeX-commandsequences. This
should be done for any non-ASCII-character. Most of the bugs I had
to remove while trying to tex my file were of such kind.
I have not proofen that this is not already implemented, I only read
the few lines of the help text for ft-tex-plugin. And didn't fiddle
with quickfix and such. May be quickfix can be misused for texing ?
Dont know.
Keep hacking and TeXing!
mcc
