Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: cmr.el (completing-read-multiple) in XEmacs

[David Kastrup]

Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:
>
>     > Hi,
>
>     > Arne Jørgensen wrote improved completing support for inserting
>     > stuff like "\usepackage[bar,baz,zab]{foo}" in AUCTeX.  The
>     > function needs `completing-read-multiple' from `crm.el'[1] which
>     > is available in Emacs 21 and Emacs 22 (CVS[2]), but not in
>     > XEmacs.
>
>     > We found that `riece.el'[3] which is available as an XEmacs
>     > package seems to duplicate some code from `crm.el' for XEmacs.
>
>     > Wouldn't it make much more sense to include `crm.el' in
>     > `xemacs-base', some utility package or distribute it as a
>     > separate package instead of duplicating it's code in several
>     > packages?
>
>     > Bye, Reiner.
>
> I support this proposal. In the coming days I am going to try to sync
> the latest official Auctex release with the official xemacs pkg, and I
> think it would be a good idea if any extern code which is required for
> auctex to work, is as uniform as possible.

Just for the record: this is not an issue yet for 11.81, but it will
be for 11.82 which will use crm if its functions or autoloads are
present.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum