Re: Depreciating TeX-style LaTeX fragments

[Eric S Fraga]

On Sunday, 16 Jan 2022 at 00:36, Timothy wrote:
>         Hmm. Not sure about this. Keystroke wise we’re comparing $$
>         to \(. The latter can be completed by smartparens, but since
>         single dollars are reasonable Org content the former can’t.
>         At this point the only argument is muscle memory, and if

As an aside, I will suggest including the following code in your Emacs
customization:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle "esf-org.el"
  ;; from Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
  ;; Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 16:23:02 +0100
  ;; Message-ID: <87vc913oh5.fsf@yahoo.fr>
  (defun yf/org-electric-dollar nil
    "When called once, insert \\(\\) and leave point in between.
  When called twice, replace the previously inserted \\(\\) by one $."
         (interactive)
         (if (and (looking-at "\\\\)") (looking-back "\\\\("))
             (progn (delete-char 2)
                    (delete-char -2)
                    (insert "$"))
           (insert "\\(\\)")
           (backward-char 2)))
  (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "$") 'yf/org-electric-dollar)
#+end_src

I've been using this for years now and it works very well: I also had
$...$ in my muscle memory.

The only time it can be annoying is if you wish to edit/write org table
expressions directly instead of using org's features for this, such as
editing the equation (C-c ') or inserting one (C-c = with or without
C-u).

-- 
: Eric S Fraga, with org release_9.5.2-306-g9623da in Emacs 29.0.50