Re: [AUCTeX] manipulating sections with auc-tex

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> [forwarding this to the mailing list]
>
> * Jobst Hoffmann (2005-08-17) writes:
>
>> Am Mittwoch, den 17.08.2005, 10:28 +0200 schrieb Ralf Angeli:
>>> * Matthieu Moy (2005-08-15) writes:
>>> 
>>> > I wrote a piece of code allowing to easily promote/demote a section,
>>> 
>>> There is already `outline-promote'/`outline-demote' in outline.el and
>>> `<'/`>' in RefTeX which handle this quite nicely.
>>> 
>>> > or to select a section with all its subsections.
>>> 
>>> Hm, I would have expected `LaTeX-mark-section' to already do this.
>>> Obviously it doesn't.  Does anybody see a problem in extending
>>> `LaTeX-mark-section' like this?
>>> 
>> I would appreciate this feature very much, there should be a prefix C-u
>> or so to prevent the marking of the subsections

I am not sure what this is supposed to do.  "section" in this context
currently means everything from the previous to the next sectioning
command, right?  So what is the proposal supposed to do when I have
something like

chapter
section
subsection
_cursor_
subsection
section

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