From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Newbie: Interactive goto-line ?! Date: 27 Feb 2004 17:58:41 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <403b2dbe$0$38285$e4fe514c@dreader14.news.xs4all.nl> <874qtgqq9w.fld@barrow.com> <403BBB98.5030506@yahoo.com> <877jycoxo4.fld@barrow.com> <87y8qroejs.fld@barrow.com> <87ptc3nmvq.fld@barrow.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077901590 30507 80.91.224.253 (27 Feb 2004 17:06:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:06:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 27 18:06:26 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AwlRS-0001yZ-00 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:06:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AwlOE-0005rE-Mi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:03:06 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news2.telebyte.nl!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p3ee20c91.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p3ee20c91.dip.t-dialin.net (62.226.12.145) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1077901121 55371238 I 62.226.12.145 ([198409]) X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121328 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17281 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17281 Stefan Monnier writes: > > I have it turned off. I use Emacs mostly for TeX programming, and > > there its competence in analysing complex TeX documents is not > > convincing (complex TeX documents can hardly be tackled by > > anything but TeX, since syntax categories in this macro language > > change on the fly). > > > I am exposed to large amounts of text all the time. The contrast > > on screen is already much lower than on paper, I need not lower it > > more artificially. > > I have changed most of my font-lock faces to be black-on-white (my > default scheme) and I use bold & italics to distinguish things. If one happens to have sane bold and italic fonts, probably not the worst idea. An emacs -mc option (monochrome) as mentioned here could do this as well instead of switching font locking off altogether. I think that such a setting could get me to live with font lock. > > In a typical TeX macro document, more than half of the important > > text consists of comments. > > Have you tried my new doctex-mode ? It's not using AUCTeX so it's > probably no good for you, but you might like the idea. The thing in CVS? That merely fiddles with fontlock, right? > I don't hack on such docs enough to have a good feel for what would > be really useful, tho. The idea is just to try and turn those "code > in comment" back into non-comments. We (actually, mostly Ralf Angeli) currently are working on filling and insertion and other stuff in AUCTeX that will accept comments as a separate syntax domain with regard to LaTeX command insertion and indentation. Separate branch named new-fill, currently. Very impressive. We have not yet taken a look at the related font lock issue, however. > Hmm... I do have comments in a greyish color to make them less > visible, but then I try to avoid having important stuff in comments. Well, _if_ it is not important then I would not be writing a comment in the first place! Far too lazy for that. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum