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Re: Removing unloaded functions from auto-mode-alist.


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Removing unloaded functions from auto-mode-alist.
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:22:58 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Forget it, Bub.  TeX-mode and LaTeX-mode are already taken as aliases.
> Who was the smart guy responsible for that?  The annotations show:
>
> 1.3          (jimb     13-May-91): ;;;###autoload
> 1.17         (eric     23-Apr-93): (defalias 'TeX-mode 'tex-mode)
> 1.3          (jimb     13-May-91): ;;;###autoload
> 1.99         (rms      16-Feb-99): (defalias 'plain-TeX-mode 'plain-tex-mode)
> 1.99         (rms      16-Feb-99): ;;;###autoload
> 1.17         (eric     23-Apr-93): (defalias 'LaTeX-mode 'latex-mode)
> 1.1          (root     28-Aug-90): 
>
> Ok, so it was "eric".

It's much older than that, see lisp/ChangeLog.1.

> At that time AUCTeX started to be sort of a contender, and AUCTeX used
> TeX-mode and LaTeX-mode, quite likely with the intent not to conflict.

Did AUCTeX already exist in 1985?  I don't think so.

Andreas.

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