Re: Bug#290635: auctex: Should allow customizeation of LaTeX-item-beamer

T. Baumann <[email protected]> writes:

> Frank Küster <frank <at> kuesterei.ch> writes:
>
>> a user of beamer.el in Debian has reported the following wishlist bug:
>> 
>> Jorgen Schaefer <forcer <at> debian.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > Package: auctex
>> > Version: 11.53-1
>> > Severity: wishlist
>> >
>> > LaTeX-item-beamer should have an option that stops it from reading an
>> > overlay argument (or otherwise allow that (setq LaTeX-item-list ...) in the
>> > TeX-add-style-hook to be overridden). Not all people use overlays
>> > extensively, and for those who don't it's annoying to always say "no,
>> > really, I don't want overlays"...
>> 
>> As far as I can see, TeX-arg-beamer-overlay-spec is still always and
>> unconditionally called in TeX-item-beamer.
>> 
>> As usual, it seems to me that a customizable option along with a C-u
>> toggle would be the best solution.
>
> The following patch should add the C-u functionality. I'll get back with the
> customization this week after I checked other style files...

I don't think this makes sense.  Typing C-u before the command
certainly is more effort than just typing RET as an answer to the
prompt.

However, the context sensitivity could save typing indeed, at least by
offering a sensible default: if the previous item in the current
environment is without beamer tag, offer an empty string for
completion, if it is of the form <a-b>, offer <b+1-> as completion, if
it is of the form <a->, offer <a+1->.  Something like that.

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