Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Default environment for "LaTeX-environment"

[Ralf Angeli]

* Dirk Ullrich (2009-02-06) writes:

> when calling "LaTeX-environment" for a LaTeX buffer that contains only
> whitespace between point and the buffer's begin, "document" is
> suggested as default environment to be inserted. I would like that
> behavior extended to LaTeX buffers with nothing but commented lines
> and whitespace between point and the begin of the buffer. (This is
> useful, for instance, if you use, like I, a standard comment block at
> the begin of every LaTeX file.)
>
> To get this I have enhanced "TeX-near-bobp" with an optional argument.
> When non-nil, not only whitespace lines will be skipped but commented
> lines too. This allows to get behavior sketched above.

`TeX-near-bobp' is only used when dealing with the insertion of a
document environment, so we probably don't even need to add an optional
argument.

> Maybe it's a good idea to preserve the old behavior for docTeX. But
> this could easily be acomplished by letting the optional argument of
> the enhanced "TeX-near-bobp" depend on the buffer's mode.

That would be good.  (But first we'll have to take care of the copyright
assignment if there is none yet.)

-- 
Ralf