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Wishlist

This is a list of projects for AUC TeX. Bug reports and requests we can not fix or honor right away will be added to this list. If you have some time for emacs lisp hacking, you are encouraged to try to provide a solution to one of the following problems. It might be a good idea to mail me first, though.

• A nice hierarchical by-topic organization of all officially documented LaTeX macros, available from the menu bar.

• Make ``' check for math context in LaTeX-math-mode. and simply self insert if not in a math context.

• LaTeX-fill-paragraph gets confused when two blocks of text are separated by an empty comment only.

• Make TeX-insert-dollar more robust. Currently it can be fooled by `\mbox''es and escaped double dollar for example.

• LaTeX formatting should skip verbatim environments.

• TeX-command-default should be set from the master file, if not set locally. Suggested by Peter Whaite `<peta@cim.mcgill.ca>'.

• Make AUC TeX work with `crypt++'. Suggested by Chris Moore `<Chris.Moore@src.bae.co.uk>'.

• Fix bug with TeX-show-environment from hidden document environment.

• Explain how to get BibTeX completion for `\cite' somewhere.

• Function to check if you are in math mode (between two dollar signs). Suggested by Jan Erik Odegard `<odegard@dsp.rice.edu>'

• Allow whitespace more places during parsing, e.g. between macro and the first argument, or between individual style options in `\documentstyle'.

• The `Spell' command should apply to all files in a document. Maybe it could try to restrict to files that have been modified since last spell check? Suggested by Ravinder Bhumbla `<rbhumbla@ucsd.edu>'.

• Make . check for abbreviations and sentences ending with capital letters. Make , and . remove italic correction.

• Use Emacs 19 minibuffer history to choose between previewers, and other stuff. Suggested by John Interrante `<interran@uluru.Stanford.EDU>'.

• Make features.

  A new command TeX-update (C-c C-u) could be used to create an up to date dvi file by repeatedly running BibTeX, MakeIndex and (La)TeX, until an error occur or we are done.

  An alternative is to have an `Update' command that ensures the `dvi' file is up to date. This could be called before printing and previewing.

• Documentation of variables that can be set in a style hook.

  We need a list of what can safely be done in an ordinary style hook. You can not set a variable that AUC TeX depends on, unless AUC TeX knows that it has to run the style hooks first.

  Here is the start of such a list.

  LaTeX-add-environments

  TeX-add-symbols

  LaTeX-add-labels

  LaTeX-add-bibliographies

  LaTeX-largest-level

• Correct indentation for tabular, tabbing, table, math, and array environments.

• Optional special indentation after an `\item'.

  \begin{itemize}
  \item blabalaskdfjlas lajf adf
        lkfjl  af jasl lkf jlsdf jlf 
  \item f lk jldjf lajflkas flf af
  \end{itemize}
  

• Completion for counters and sboxes.

• Outline should be (better) supported in TeX mode.

  At least, support headers, trailers, as well as TeX-outline-extra.

• TeX-header-start and TeX-trailer-end.

  We might want these, just for fun (and outlines)

• Plain TeX and LaTeX specific header and trailer expressions.

  We should have a way to globally specify the default value of the header and trailer regexps.

• Add support for original TeX-mode keybindings.

  A third initialization file (`tex-mode.el') containing an emulator of the standard TeX-mode would help convince some people to change to AUC TeX.

• Make TeX-next-error parse ahead and store the results in a list, using markers to remember buffer positions in order to be more robust with regard to line numbers and changed files. This is what next-error does. (Or did, until Emacs 19).

• When LaTeX-environment is given an argument, change the current environment. Be smart about `\item[]' versus `\item ' and labels like `fig:' versus `tab:'.

• Check out if lightening completion from Ultra TeX is anything for us.

• Finish the TeXinfo mode.

• BibTeX mode.

• Support for AMSLaTeX style files.

• Better LaTeX letter environment.

  Make a database system for addresses in the letter environment Make the letter environment hook produce `documentstyle' too.

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