Re: [AUCTeX-devel] TeX-auto-save and files with the same basename

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2007-05-13) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I've now poked around in the code a bit again and my impression is that
>> we should completely rip out the style system, clean it up or
>> reimplement it, and put it into its own file to be used by the AUCTeX
>> modes as a library.  Implementing support for file names with extensions
>> with the current basis will only make things messier than they already
>> are.  (My favorite in this regard is `LaTeX-auto-cleanup'.)
>
> Well, actually this is pretty much the story for most of AUCTeX...

I'm currently trying to do just that for font-latex.  But I'm still in
the requirements gathering and design phase.

> I
> admit, though, that the style system is one of the most obfuscate and
> thus unmaintainable parts of AUCTeX.

Two major obstacles for getting a grip on it are the generation of
functions and variables by other code and the fact that it is used in so
many corners of AUCTeX.

-- 
Ralf