Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.82; More intelligent handling of starred sectioning commands

[Frank Küster]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> wrote:

>> Maybe it would make sense to allow section names "section*" and
>> "section[" as reply to the C-c C-s query of the section level.  A
>> starred entry would not ask for a label, and a "section[" would ask
>> for a toc entry (when using memoir, section[[ might ask for both toc
>> entry and running header).

That sounds sensible to me, although I agree with you that section[ is a
bit strange.

> Personally I'd find "section*" natural but "section[" a bit obscure.
> "section*" is something you can already use.  Currently it just
> doesn't inhibit prompting for a label.  For that one would have to
> temporarily remove `LaTeX-section-label' from `LaTeX-section-hook' or
> let-bind a variable which gets checked by `LaTeX-section-label'.  But
> that doesn't help with the default-to-starred-section-if-section-
> before-was-starred-as-well business.

I have no idea how the code works, but it already knows whether I've
used section or paragraphs the last time.  If "section*" would be part
of the list, wouldn't it remember that complete string just as it now
remembers "section" and "subsection"?

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)