Re: Unicode characters for transcribing to pdf

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Alessandro Bertulli <alessandro.bertulli96@gmail.com> writes:

> Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> `LaTeX-mode-map`, like most package variables, is only defined once
>> its package is actually loaded, which is done lazily in response to the
>> use of the package (e.g. opening a LaTeX file).
>>
>> So it's normal that `LaTeX-mode-map` is not defined when your init file
>> is loaded.  This is on purpose to try and speed up Emacs's startup.
>>
>> You can use things like:
>>
>>     (with-eval-after-load 'latex
>>       (define-key LaTeX-mode-map (kbd "C-c a") #'my-bar)
>>       (define-key LaTeX-mode-map (kbd "C-c b") #'my-foo))
>
> You honestly opened a world to me. I have long wondered the difference
> between require and with-eval-after-load (of course I could have read
> the docs, but I never found time). :-)
>
>> or
>>
>>     (defun my-latex-setup ()
>>       (define-key LaTeX-mode-map (kbd "C-c a") #'my-bar)
>>       (define-key LaTeX-mode-map (kbd "C-c b") #'my-foo))
>>     (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook #'my-latex-setup)
>>
>> in order to delay the customization to after the variable is defined.
>
> Isn't this redundant? You call the function every time a LaTeX file is
> loaded. The first method is preferrable, right?

Yeah, the first one is IMHO better.

>
> Alessandro
>

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