bug#21595: 11.88.8; TeX help in Plain contaminated by LaTeX

[Tassilo Horn]

jfbu <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Jean-François,

> as I said to Mosè: perhaps in the future, some modifications could be
> considered.

Yes, absolutely.  For example, it wouldn't require much effort to allow
entries of the form (REGEX . FUNCTION) in addition to (REGEX . STRING).
For such an entry, FUNCTION would be called and had to return an
appropriate description string.  That function could check, e.g.,
`major-mode', to see if this is plain TeX, LaTeX, or whatever and
provide better help.

That would certainly be feasible.  I just don't have enough (La)TeX
knowledge to be able to judge which descriptions and hints are still
relevant, which ones are outdated, and which ones are missing.  So
that's a point where you could help a lot.

Bye,
Tassilo