Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Simple patch to add cref support

[Matthew Leach]

Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Matthew,

Hi Mosè,

Thanks for the reply.

>
>
> 2014-10-11 22:08 GMT+02:00 Matthew Leach <address@hidden>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I noticed that when using the cref macro with AUCTeX, LaTeX labels
>> aren't completed.  This simple patch adds support for label completion
>> when using the cref and Cref macros.
>
> Thanks for your contribution, but the cref macros are provided by the
> cleveref package, thus we need a new cleveref style file. I'd prefer
> not to insert those macros in latex.el.

Ah. Thanks for the pointer, I shall look into how to write a style file.

> 
>
>> I would like to develop this
>> further to add support in TeX-arg-label to read in lists of references.
>> Does that sounds reasonable?
>
> Of course any contribution is welcome :-) One small comment: I'd keep
> the default behavior of `TeX-arg-label' as it is now, since the
> default \ref doesn't accept multiple labels.  The completion for
> multiple labels should be activated by an appropriate argument, or
> done by a new function (`TeX-arg-multiple-labels'?).

Agreed, I shall create a new function for processing a list of labels.

>
>
> If you want to propose non trivial patches, you have to be willing to
> license them under GPL and assign the copyright to the FSF.

I do have copyright assignment already in place for GNU Emacs, does that
count for AUCTeX or would I need to sign new papers?
-- 
Matt