Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] minor annoyance when opening tex file in carbon emacs

[David Kastrup]

Artemio Gonzalez Lopez <address@hidden> writes:

> In fact, the problem disappears when I disable x-symbol (even if
> auctex is loaded), so it's most likely some kind of interaction
> between x-symbol and auctex. That's too bad, because x-symbol is no
> longer maintained. OTOH, I only use x-symbol for encoding-decoding
> accented letters and the like. In other words, when I edit a tex
> buffer I can type á and get x-symbol to write \'a to file when I save,
> and viceversa (\'a in a tex file is displayed as á in its buffer if x- 
> symbol is activated). Do you know any (modern) package that has that
> capability and can be used with auctex? Alternatively, would it be
> possible (or rather convenient:-) to somehow merge x-symbol (or at
> least part of it) into auctex?

I have had enough documents altered/mangled using x-symbol that I am
pretty sure I don't like its principles of operation.  One of the
reasons that preview-latex has been designed not to touch or alter the
buffer text in any manner is that I have seen what can happen when
things go wrong with x-symbol.  x-symbol also is not restricted to TeX.

Given the inputenc package, I actually see no point in read/write
conversion in that manner.

-- 
David Kastrup