Re: [AUCTeX] manipulating sections with auc-tex

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * Matthieu Moy (2005-08-26) writes:
>
>> I had no news about the following patch that I posted a
>> few days ago:
>
> Be a little more patient.  Sorting that out is on my to-do list.
>
>>> +  (make-local-variable 'outline-heading-alist)
>>> +  (setq outline-heading-alist
>>> +        (mapcar (lambda (x)
>>> +                  (cons (concat "\\" (nth 0 x)) (nth 1 x)))
>>> +                LaTeX-section-list))
>
> I already saw two problems: First, `outline-heading-alist' is made
> buffer-local in outline.el, so a `make-local-variable' is
> unnecessary.

That's not a problem.  It is merely redundant.

> Second, the variable is not defined in older versions of outline.el,
> e.g. in Emacs 21, and therefore should not be set in such cases.

Why not?

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