bug#53749: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Xref backend for TeX buffers

[David Fussner]

Hi Tassilo and Keita,

Thanks for the clarifications. If you look at the current patch to
tex-mode.el, there's one function call added to TeX-mode-hook, mainly
for my own testing purposes, but no matter what the final patch looks
like it should only similarly require a single function call in an
AUCTeX hook to activate the new xref code there, along with one in
tex-common-initialization for the in-tree modes. If and when all
parties are satisfied by the patch I'll certainly be in touch with you
to find out how you'd prefer to handle activating it (or not) in
AUCTeX. The current state of affairs is a convenience for me and for
anyone else who cares to test the code.

Thanks again,

David.

On Sat, 16 Sept 2023 at 06:53, Ikumi Keita <ikumi@ikumi.que.jp> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> >>>>> Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
> >>> Do AUCTeX modes inherit from tex-mode?
>
> > Not currently but in Keita's feature/fix-mode-names-overlap branch
>
> Currently, no. In feater/fix-mode-names-overlap branch, the major mode
> iheritance relations are:
>
> text-mode      --+-- TeX-mode
>                  +-- Texinfo-mode
>
> TeX-mode       --+-- plain-TeX-mode
>                  +-- LaTeX-mode
>                  +-- ConTeXt-mode
>
> plain-TeX-mode --+-- AmSTeX-mode
>                  +-- japanese-plain-TeX-mode
>
> LaTeX-mode     --+-- docTeX-mode
>                  +-- japanese-LaTeX-mode
>
> (There are ConTeXt-en-mode and ConTeXt-nl-mode as well, but my current
> personal plain is to delete them.)
>
> I don't think it's a good idea to inherit from tex-mode; it isn't
> diffcult to change the "top" mode from text-mode with tex-mode, but in
> that case LaTeX-mode can't have both built-in latex-mode and TeX-mode as
> its parent mode.
>
> (Maybe an exception is Texinfo-mode. It would make sense to have
> built-in texinfo-mode as parent of Texinfo-mode. If there is a good
> reason to do so, I won't object strongly.)
>
> > which will probably become AUCTeX 14, I guess.
>
> I hope so. :-)
>
> >>> Or all call tex-common-initialization? Then you could set that
> >>> variable locally inside that function once.
>
> > Again, not right now but probably in the future.
>
> Currently, they don't call tex-common-initialization, but we can do so
> in TeX-mode. (But I haven't consider its pros and cons deeply yet.)
>
> Best regards,
> Ikumi Keita
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