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diff --git a/elpa/auctex-13.1.3/doc/todo.texi b/elpa/auctex-13.1.3/doc/todo.texi deleted file mode 100644 index 218231d..0000000 --- a/elpa/auctex-13.1.3/doc/todo.texi +++ /dev/null @@ -1,311 +0,0 @@ -@c This is part of the AUCTeX Manual. -@c Copyright (C) 2004-2006, 2008, 2009, 2013-2015, -@c 2020-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -@c See the file auctex.texi for copying conditions. -@ifset rawfile -@include macros.texi -@node Development,,(dir),(dir) -@top Future Development of @AUCTeX{} -@end ifset - -The following sections describe future development of @AUCTeX{}. -Besides mid-term goals, bug reports and requests we cannot fix or honor -right away are being gathered here. If you have some time for Emacs -Lisp hacking, you are encouraged to try to provide a solution to one of -the following problems. If you don't know Lisp, you may help us to -improve the documentation. It might be a good idea to discuss proposed -changes on the mailing list of @AUCTeX{} first. - -@menu -* Mid-term Goals:: -* Wishlist:: -* Bugs:: -@end menu - -@ifset rawfile -@node Mid-term Goals -@chapter Mid-term Goals -@raisesections -@end ifset - -@ifclear rawfile -@node Mid-term Goals -@section Mid-term Goals -@end ifclear - -@itemize @bullet -@item Integration of @previewlatex{} into @AUCTeX{} - -As of @AUCTeX{} 11.81 @previewlatex{} is a part of @AUCTeX{} in the -sense that the installation routines were merged and @previewlatex{} is -being packaged with @AUCTeX{}. - -Further integration will happen at the backend. This involves folding -of error parsing and task management of both packages which will ease -development efforts and avoid redundant work. - -@item Error help catalogs - -Currently, the help for errors is more or less hardwired into -@file{latex.el}. For supporting error help in other languages, it would -be sensible to instead arrange error messages in language-specific -files, make a common info file from all such catalogs in a given -language and look the error texts up in an appropriate index. The user -would then specify a preference list of languages, and the errors would -be looked up in the catalogs in sequence until they were identified. - -@item Combining @samp{docTeX} with Ref@TeX{} - -Macro cross references should also be usable for document navigation -using Ref@TeX{}. - -@item Fix remove-style feature - -Currently @code{TeX-remove-style} implementation isn't good. It is common -practice that major mode functions directly add macros and environments -via @code{TeX-add-symbols} and @code{LaTeX-add-environments}, but those -macros and environments are lost once @code{TeX-remove-style} runs. It is -necessary to run major mode function, by e.g.@: @code{normal-mode}, again -to recover them, but that makes no point in running -@code{TeX-remove-style} itself because major mode function kills all -buffer-local variables. - -As of @AUCTeX{} 12.3, @code{TeX-remove-style} is no longer used by any -other codes. - -@item -Document @code{LaTeX-insert-into-commments}, -@code{TeX-translate-location-hook}, and usage of @ConTeXt{} mode. -@end itemize - -@node Wishlist -@section Wishlist - -@itemize @bullet -@item -Simplify tool bar implementation. The library @file{toolbar-x.el} was -developed as an abstraction layer to absorb difference between XEmacs -and @acronym{GNU} Emacs. Now that XEmacs is no longer supported, the -library, together with @file{tex-bar.el} as a whole, can be much -simplified (or even unified). - -@item Documentation lookup for macros - -A parser could gather information about which macros are defined in -which @LaTeX{} packages and store the information in a hashtable which -can be used in a backend for @code{TeX-doc} in order to open the -matching documentation for a given macro. The information could also be -used to insert an appropriate @samp{\usepackage} statement if the user -tries to insert a macro for which the respective package has not been -requested yet. - -@item Improvements to error reporting - -Fringe indicators for errors in the main text would be nice. - -@item A math entry grid - -A separate frame with a table of math character graphics to click on in -order to insert the respective sequence into the buffer (cf. the -``grid'' of @samp{x-symbol}). - -@item Crossreferencing support - -It would be nice if you could index process your favorite collection of -@file{.dtx} files (such as the @LaTeX{} source), just call a command on -arbitrary control sequence, and get either the @acronym{DVI} viewer opened right -at the definition of that macro (using Source Specials), or the source -code of the @file{.dtx} file. - -@item Better plain @TeX{} support - -For starters, @code{LaTeX-math-mode} is not very @LaTeX{}-specific in -the first place, and similar holds for indentation and formatting. - -@item -Page count when compiling should (optionally) go to modeline of the -window where the compilation command was invoked, instead of the output -window. Suggested by Karsten Tinnefeld -@email{tinnefeld@@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de}. - -@item -Command to insert a macrodefinition in the preamble, without moving -point from the current location. Suggested by -"Jeffrey C. Ely" @email{ely@@nwu.edu}. - -@item -A database of all commands defined in all stylefiles. When a command or -environment gets entered that is provided in one of the styles, insert -the appropriate @code{\usepackage} in the preamble. - -@item -A way to add and overwrite math mode entries in style files, and to -decide where they should be. Suggested by Remo Badii @email{Remo.Badii@@psi.ch}. - -@item -Create template for (first) line of tabular environment. - -@item -@c FIXME: Already fixed? -I think prompting for the master is the intended behaviour. It -corresponds to a `shared' value for @code{TeX-master}. - -There should probably be a `none' value which wouldn't query for the -master, but instead disable all features that relies on @code{TeX-master}. - -This default value for @code{TeX-master} could then be controled with mapping -based on the extension. - -@item -Use index files (when available) to speed up @kbd{C-c C-m include -@key{RET}}. - -@item -Option not to calculate very slow completions like for -@kbd{C-c C-m include @key{RET}}. - -@item -Font menu should be created from @code{TeX-font-list}. - -@item -Installation procedure written purely in emacs lisp. - -@item -Included PostScript files should also be counted as part of the -document. - -@item -A nice hierarchical by-topic organization of all officially documented -@LaTeX{} macros, available from the menu bar. - -@item -@code{TeX-command-default} should be set from the master file, if not -set locally. Suggested by Peter Whaite @email{peta@@cim.mcgill.ca}. - -@item -Make @AUCTeX{} work with @samp{crypt++}. Suggested by Chris Moore -@email{Chris.Moore@@src.bae.co.uk}. - -@item -Make @AUCTeX{} work with @samp{longlines}. This would also apply to -@previewlatex{}, though it might make sense to unify error processing -before attempting this. - -@item -@c FIXME: Already achieved? -The @samp{Spell} command should apply to all files in a document. Maybe -it could try to restrict to files that have been modified since last -spell check? Suggested by Ravinder Bhumbla @email{rbhumbla@@ucsd.edu}. - -@item -Make @key{.} check for abbreviations and sentences ending with capital -letters. - -@item -Use Emacs 19 minibuffer history to choose between previewers, and other -stuff. Suggested by John Interrante -@email{interran@@uluru.Stanford.EDU}. - -@item -Documentation of variables that can be set in a style hook. - -We need a list of what can safely be done in an ordinary style hook. -You can not set a variable that @AUCTeX{} depends on, unless @AUCTeX{} -knows that it has to run the style hooks first. - -Here is the start of such a list. -@table @code - -@item LaTeX-add-environments - -@item TeX-add-symbols - -@item LaTeX-add-labels - -@item LaTeX-add-bibliographies - -@item LaTeX-largest-level - -@end table - -@item -Outline should be (better) supported in @TeX{} mode. - -At least, support headers, trailers, as well as @code{TeX-outline-extra}. - -@item -@code{TeX-header-start} and @code{TeX-trailer-end}. - -We might want these, just for fun (and outlines) - -@item -Plain @TeX{} and @LaTeX{} specific header and trailer expressions. - -We should have a way to globally specify the default value of the header -and trailer regexps. - -@item -Get closer to original @code{TeX-mode} keybindings. - -A third initialization file (@file{tex-mode.el}) containing an emulator -of the standard @code{TeX-mode} would help convince some people to -change to @AUCTeX{}. - -@item -Use markers in @code{TeX-error-list} to remember buffer positions in -order to be more robust with regard to line numbers and changed files. - -@item -Finish the Texinfo mode. For one thing, many Texinfo mode commands do -not accept braces around their arguments. - -@item -Hook up the letter environment with @file{bbdb.el}. - -@end itemize - -@node Bugs -@section Bugs - -@c FIXME: Are those bugs still present? - -@itemize @bullet -@item -The style hooks automatically generated by parsing files for -@file{example.dtx}, @file{example.sty}, @file{example.drv} and -@file{example.bib} all clash. Bad. Clash with hand-written style hooks -should be removed by dialect discrimination --- to be checked. - -@item -@kbd{C-c `} should always stay in the current window, also when it finds -a new file. - -@item -Do not overwrite emacs warnings about existing auto-save files when -loading a new file. - -@item -Maybe the regexp for matching a @TeX{} symbol during parsing should be -@samp{"\\\\\\([a-zA-Z]+\\|.\\)"} --- -@email{thiemann@@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de} Peter Thiemann. - -@item -@AUCTeX{} should not parse verbatim environments. - -@item -Make @samp{`} check for math context in @code{LaTeX-math-mode}. and -simply self insert if not in a math context. - -@item -Make @code{TeX-insert-dollar} more robust. Currently it can be fooled -by @samp{\mbox}'es and escaped double dollar for example. - -@item -@c FIXME: Is support for table environment really necessary? -Correct indentation for tabbing, table, and math environments. -@end itemize - -@c Local Variables: -@c mode: texinfo -@c TeX-master: "auctex" -@c End: |