Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Manage auto insertion of labels

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi,

2014-08-07 21:56 GMT+02:00 Tassilo Horn <address@hidden>:
> Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Mosè,
>
>> `LaTeX-label' function always inserts labels, but I don't like this
>> behavior since I want to automatically add labels for some but not all
>> environments.
>
> I also don't always insert a label for each section or environment where
> AUCTeX offers to insert one, but I'm just fine with hitting C-g in those
> cases where I don't want one.
>
>> The attached patch introduces a new customizable option to manage the
>> behavior of `LaTeX-label'.  This can be either a boolean or a cons
>> cell.  When the variable is a boolean, t makes `LaTeX-label' always
>> insert labels, otherwise with a nil value a label will never be
>> inserted.  To add a more fine-grained control, the variable can also
>> be a whitelist or a blacklist
>
> I think, I cannot encode my labeling needs in such a variable, e.g., my
> requirement is not simply "I don't want labels for FOOBARs" but more
> like "I don't want labels for FOOBARs unless it's a paper for the QUUX
> journal using the BAZ document class."  Well, and the rules are probably
> not really static anyway.

For very sophisticated rules, we could add another possible value for
`LaTeX-auto-insert-label': the name of a function (taking as argument
the name of the environment) to which leave the decision.  But this
would be only for very bold Lisp hackers :-)

> But just that I have no use for a feature doesn't mean it's bad, of
> course.  If it's useful for you and possibly others, then I'm fine with
> just not customizing it and getting the behavior I'm used to.

Ok, patch just installed!  Thank you.

Bye,
Mosè