Re: tex-parens package

[Paul Nelson <nelson.paul.david@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 12:28 AM Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net> wrote:
>
> Paul Nelson <nelson.paul.david@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'd be happy to see it integrated further if there's interest, and
> > would then welcome feedback on how best to do that.  For instance, it
> > could be included "as is", as a collection of functions that the user
> > can bind, or alternatively as a minor mode ("tex-parens-mode"?) with
> > a keymap that remaps binds for list/sexp commands to their tex-parens
> > counterparts.
> >
>
> Is there a technical solution that makes it work for both the built-in
> modes and auctex?
>

The approaches I mentioned work with both the built-in modes and auctex.

Thinking a bit more: the features of tex-parens should be optional,
since they clash a bit with the defaults of both tex-mode.el and
auctex (which set forward-sexp-function and
beginning-of-defun-function, respectively).  This suggests packaging
those features as a minor mode.  I've updated the package just now to
contain such a minor mode, tex-parens-mode, which works as a hook for
either tex-mode or TeX-mode.  The basic setup thus simplifies to
adding a line such as (add-hook 'tex-mode #'tex-parens-mode) to one's
config.

The only way I can think of to integrate tex-parens further would be
to include it in Emacs and enable the minor mode by default (e.g., in
the setup of tex-mode and TeX-mode), but that seems a bit aggressive?
Any other suggestions would of course be welcome.