Re: TeX-insert-dollar not refusing

[Arash Esbati]

Hi Pieter,

Pieter Pareit <address@hidden> writes:

> The documentation of TeX-insert-dollar notes that if the current math
> mode was not entered with a dollar, it refuses to insert one. At the
> moment, it still inserts a dollar. Can this be fixed.
>
> I propose the following:
>
> diff --git a/tex.el b/tex.el
> index 95448d8b..e8b9e72c 100644
> --- a/tex.el
> +++ b/tex.el
> @@ -5846,8 +5846,7 @@ sign.  With optional ARG, insert that many dollar
> signs."
>       (t
>        ;; Math mode was not entered with dollar - we cannot finish it
> with one.
>        (message "Math mode started with `%s' cannot be closed with
> dollar"
> -              (car texmathp-why))
> -      (insert "$"))))
> +              (car texmathp-why)))))
>     (t
>      ;; Just somewhere in the text.
>      (cond

Good catch, thanks for reporting this issue.  I've pushed a change with
your suggestion to AUCTeX repo (13e67467).

Best, Arash