Re: Removing unloaded functions from auto-mode-alist.

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Forget it, Bub.  TeX-mode and LaTeX-mode are already taken as aliases.
>> Who was the smart guy responsible for that?  The annotations show:
>>
>> 1.3          (jimb     13-May-91): ;;;###autoload
>> 1.17         (eric     23-Apr-93): (defalias 'TeX-mode 'tex-mode)
>> 1.3          (jimb     13-May-91): ;;;###autoload
>> 1.99         (rms      16-Feb-99): (defalias 'plain-TeX-mode 'plain-tex-mode)
>> 1.99         (rms      16-Feb-99): ;;;###autoload
>> 1.17         (eric     23-Apr-93): (defalias 'LaTeX-mode 'latex-mode)
>> 1.1          (root     28-Aug-90): 
>>
>> Ok, so it was "eric".
>
> It's much older than that, see lisp/ChangeLog.1.
>
>> At that time AUCTeX started to be sort of a contender, and AUCTeX used
>> TeX-mode and LaTeX-mode, quite likely with the intent not to conflict.
>
> Did AUCTeX already exist in 1985?  I don't think so.

@node Ancient History
@comment  node-name,  next,  previous,  up
@section Ancient History

The origin of AUC @TeX{} is @file{tex-mode.el} from Emacs 16.  Lars
Peter Fischer @samp{<fischer@@iesd.auc.dk>} wrote the first functions to
insert font macros and Danish characters back in 1986.  Per Abrahamsen
@samp{<abraham@@iesd.auc.dk>} wrote the functions to insert environments
and sections, to indent the text, and the outline minor mode in 1987.
Kresten Krab Thorup @samp{<krab@@iesd.auc.dk>} wrote the buffer handling
and debugging functions, the macro completion, and much more, including
much improved indentation and text formatting functions.  He also made
the first public release in 1991, and was the main author and
coordinator of every release up to and including 6.0.

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