Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Use user-full-name as initial input to author macro

[Tassilo Horn]

Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Mosè,

> I'm sending a patch defining a new customizable variable (whose
> default value is `user-full-name') to be used as initial input to
> `\author' macro.  Any comments?

That's a good idea.  One comment below.

> Some minutes ago I've documented some missing features in
> `doc/auctex.texi', I hope it's OK.

Sure.  Feel free to commit docfixes and simple bugfixes without
discussion.

> +(defun LaTeX-arg-author (optional)
> +  "Prompt for author name.
> +Insert the given value as a TeX macro argument.  If OPTIONAL is
> +non-nil, insert it as an optional argument.  Use
> +`LaTeX-default-author' as initial input."
> +  (let ((author (if LaTeX-default-author
> +                 (read-string "Author(s): " (eval LaTeX-default-author))

Why the `eval'?  Just LaTeX-default-author will also do.

Bye,
Tassilo