Re: [AUCTeX-devel] About commonly used and "expert" macros/environments

[Tassilo Horn]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

>>> That might make it nicer to store the information elsewhere, such as
>>> a property or hash list.  But then it is getting used in core
>>> functions making use of those data structures, and having another
>>> non-trivial lookup per element is undesirable.  So placing this
>>> information along with the rest seems desirable.
>>
>> Another reason for not using a separate data structure is that this
>> would force a separation for adding a macro/env and declaring it
>> "expert".
>
> Isn't that more of an advantage?  Makes it easier to update an existing
> or autogenerated package with the expert information without having to
> edit the innards of data structures/calls.

If you say it this way, then yes. ;-)

First, I've thought it wouldn't make a difference as long as we provide
some TeX-declare-expert function.  But then I realized that if that
function would modify entries in `TeX-symbol-list' and
`LaTeX-environment-list' directly, the style whose entries are to be
modified needs to be loaded beforehand.

Bye,
Tassilo