[AUCTeX-devel] Making `M-RET' more useful

[Reiner Steib]

Hi,

in message-mode, M-RET runs `message-newline-and-reformat':

,----[ `C-h k M-RET' ]
| M-RET runs the command message-newline-and-reformat
|   which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `message'.
| It is bound to M-RET, <menu-bar> <Message> <Newline and Reformat>.
| (message-newline-and-reformat &optional arg not-break)
| 
| Insert four newlines, and then reformat if inside quoted text.
| Prefix arg means justify as well.
`----

In LaTeX mode, I often also hit `M-RET', but I get an "\item"
(`LaTeX-insert-item'), which is completely useless outside an
itemize-like environment.  Or am I missing something?

Before I try to implement a `message-newline-and-reformat'-like
command for AUCTeX I'd like to hear other opinions.

How about making `M-RET' do newline-and-reformat (no "\item") if
`LaTeX-current-environment' returns "document" (or "letter", what
else?), cf. `LaTeX-insert-item'.  If yes, should it be done by adding
an appropriate entries for "document" and "letter" to
`LaTeX-item-list'?  Other suggestions?

Bye, Reiner.
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