Re: [AUCTeX] manipulating sections with auc-tex

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2005-08-26) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I already saw two problems: First, `outline-heading-alist' is made
>> buffer-local in outline.el, so a `make-local-variable' is
>> unnecessary.
>
> That's not a problem.  It is merely redundant.

And redundancy cannot be a problem?

>> Second, the variable is not defined in older versions of outline.el,
>> e.g. in Emacs 21, and therefore should not be set in such cases.
>
> Why not?

Because it will be defined afterwards.  I don't want to produce
confusion by defining variables not in AUCTeX's namespace where the
respective functionality of the original library is missing.

-- 
Ralf