Re: Remove auctex from emacs

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2022-09-12, at 12:01, uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me> wrote:

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> On Monday, September 12th, 2022 at 7:16 AM, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> 
> wrote:
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>> On 2022-09-11, at 21:19, uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me wrote:
>> 
>> > How can remove auctex from emacs so that i can use tex-mode and latex-mode 
>> > ?
>> 
>> 
>> Out of curiosity: why? Is there anything that AUCTeX doesn't do that
>> the built-in tex-mode/latex-mode does? I never used the built-in mode,
>> but I read its documentation (many years ago), and it seems rather
>> simplistic. OTOH, I used AUCTeX for many, many years (at least 15 years
>> - now I rarely do anything in (La)TeX), and it has always served me well
>> (maybe apart from rather poor ConTeXt support, idk if that improved -
>> but it still wasn't very bad).
>> 
>> Best,
>
> Whatever it is, major-modes are not supposed to work that way.

Not sure what do you mean.  Worked for me for well over a decade.
I assume it might bother you that it doesn't seem to have an entry in
`auto-mode-alist' – but that makes sense given that the same file name
pattern ("\\.tex$") corresponds to several modes (plain
TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt/possible others, like AMSTeX).  You could argue that
there should be one major AUCTeX mode and plain TeX/LaTeX/etc. minor
modes – but it is what it is, and I guess it's way too late to change
that.

Probably `magic-mode-alist' could help – but I have a hunch that it's
more recent than AUCTeX' mechanism for major mode selection.  (It was
defined in Emacs 22.1 – I'm 99% sure AUCTeX was around much earlier.
I seem to vaguely recollect the first Emacs version I used to be 21
(±1), and I almost certainly attended a presentation about AUCTeX before
I even used Emacs.)

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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