From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralf Angeli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: Projects and multi-file documents Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:51:52 +0100 Message-ID: <87d4quayif.fsf@photon.caeruleus.net> References: <87odaifv16.fsf@mundaneum.com> <87r6fd5q12.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <47B6B3CC.1080101@gnu.org> <87wsp5xhz4.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <47B6D1ED.6020601@gmail.com> <87r6fcxms7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <47B8452F.6090504@gmail.com> <87odafxluc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87bq6fnrpt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87hcg7xh2h.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ablyye32.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203360759 7985 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2008 18:52:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:52:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , Edward O'Connor , emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Miles Bader To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 18 19:53:03 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JRB6c-0001XB-La for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:52:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRB67-0008Lh-RA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:52:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRB62-0008Jk-5S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:52:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRB5y-0008HE-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:52:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRB5x-0008Gh-Oe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:52:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRB5x-00017Q-MX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:52:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JRB5w-0002s4-Q1 for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:52:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRB5u-00015u-9k for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:52:05 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRB5t-00015K-Nx; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:52:02 -0500 Original-Received: from photon.caeruleus.net (p54A521E7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.165.33.231]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu8) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML31I-1JRB5l178M-0004co; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:51:59 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:59:26 -0500") X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/WUeEZUoVz7vZyZJkxmiBg1f5RtRY/Ge8rx+l Tumokbq9u1WZ5w3LRybghYPWRx5ZsVSYR7AUrhOGiBkFM+39qM 00zx8KxnZgM6+j+Y0mExg== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89508 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21201 Archived-At: * Stefan Monnier (2008-02-18) writes: >> Also, I appealed to PSGML and AUCTeX for a reason. There are many >> cases now where multi-file documents are the norm. I think that not >> only DTP files, but also multi-file source programs could benefit from >> these techniques, over and above what we get from tag tables already. > > Yes, Emacs needs to be improved w.r.t its support for multi-file > documents, and projects in general. AUCTeX is likely not a role model for multi-file handling. The use of file variables for the master file makes it only easy to search upwards but not downwards. RefTeX might be more interesting to look at. Here the result of parsing a multi-file LaTeX document is stored in a separate file. -- Ralf