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diff --git a/elpa/auctex-13.1.3/doc/todo.texi b/elpa/auctex-13.1.3/doc/todo.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..218231d --- /dev/null +++ b/elpa/auctex-13.1.3/doc/todo.texi @@ -0,0 +1,311 @@ +@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: |