Re: -- gives "=

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> writes:

    > On Thu, Oct 10 2024, Colin Baxter wrote:
    >> Using the latest git pull of auctex, I find that entering --
    >> results in "= appearing on the screen. Is this new? Ok, if I
    >> enter - three times I get --, but I want to get back to -- giving
    >> me --. How do I do this?

    > It's definitely not new, it's been in AUCTeX for a very long time
    > and is, IIRC, controlled by the user options `LaTeX-babel-hyphen`
    > and `LaTeX-babel-hyphen-after-hyphen`. See:

    > (info "(auctex) European")

    > for some more information.

Thank you.

    > Why this functionality is suddenly being activated in your case, I
    > don't know. I thought it was only active if you use the babel
    > package in your document.

I don't usually use babel, but I find that today I had loaded babel
inadvertently, through circumstances too painful to explain. This has
now been rectified, and -- produces -- again.

Thank you for your help.

Colin Baxter.