Re: Remove auctex from emacs

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2022-09-12, at 15:18, uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me> wrote:

> ------- Original Message -------
> On Monday, September 12th, 2022 at 12:16 PM, Marcin Borkowski 
> <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>
>
>> On 2022-09-12, at 12:01, uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me wrote:
>>
>> > ------- Original Message -------
>> > On Monday, September 12th, 2022 at 7:16 AM, Marcin Borkowski 
>> > mbork@mbork.pl wrote:
>> >
>> > > 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.)
>
> There are too many tex and latex packages today, making the original design 
> quite inadequate,
> particularly with the emergence of cdlatex.

Interesting.  I've been using AUCTeX _a lot_ for many years until about
2018, when I left academia.  Since then I've been using it less often,
but I still do from time to time.  I didn't notice any major
inadequacies (there are - and always have been - minor annoyances).
What are the problems you mean?

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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