Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Bug#624735: Displays \it with an italic '\'

[Ralf Angeli]

* Josh Triplett (2011-05-10) writes:

> On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 10:15:45PM +0200, Ralf Angeli wrote:
>
>> Also, in which context or use case would it be a big problem if the
>> characters where not easily distinguishable?
>
> In my case, I encountered this problem when staring at a complex TeX
> macro, which ran several commands in a row, along the lines of
> \foo\it\bar\baz.  The italic '\' characters caused by the formatting of
> \it caused me quite a bit of confusion when trying to decipher it, until
> I figured out that they really did represent backslashes.  It took me
> some time to parse the \it in the first place, since I didn't see the
> characteristic '\'.

You'll have the same problem with something like \foo{\it\bar}.  And in
Emacs' standard LaTeX mode it will be the same even without the braces.

Anyway, the font locking in AUCTeX always fontifies the whole macro,
including the backslash.  I don't think it would be a good idea to break
this habit for one particular case.

In case this is really a huge problem for you, you can change the call
to `store-match-data' in `font-latex-match-command-in-braces' from

                (store-match-data (list (point) (point)
                                        (point) (point)
                                        cbeg cend))

to

                (store-match-data (list (point) (point)
                                        (point) (point)
                                        (1+ cbeg) cend))

-- 
Ralf