Re: [AUCTeX] Problem with latex2e style hook --- LaTeX/Texinfo collision

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi Vincent and all,

2016-01-12 8:25 GMT+01:00 Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden>:
> Hello Mosè,
>
> I have had a look at your patch, and everything seems OK to
> me.
>
> Concerning variable `TeX-style-hook-dialect-weight-alist', its use is to
> convert dialect symbols (ie `:latex', `:texinfo', etc...) into a
> integer bitmap representation, so that dialect expressions (`or', `and',
> and `not') are evaluated to an integer bitmap. This is done by function
> `TeX-shdex-eval' (please remember shdex stands for Style Hook Dialect
> EXpression).
>
> So, functionally speaking, there is no meaning what weight you associate
> to each symbol, provided that:
> - weights are powers of 2 within 30bits (info "(elisp) Integer Basics"), and
> - no two symbols have the same weight
>
> Performance-wise there may be a very small impact what the order of
> association cells are in variable `TeX-style-hook-dialect-weight-alist',
> because function `TeX-shdex-eval' uses `assq' which finds cells in
> linear time.  Initially I used this order: :latex, :texinfo, :bibtex, as
> in fact I write more often LaTeX documents than Texinfo documents, and
> Texinfo documents than BibTeX files. That is just my personal feeling,
> not sure whether this is a widely shared order, and I doubt anyway that
> there are any statistics about TeX dialect use.
>
> Fine, idle talk: that order has a non detectable impact on
> performance. Just do as you like.
>
> BR,
>    Vincent.

Thanks for the explanation!  I've added the new dialects and now
`TeX-style-hook-dialect' is written to the parsed file when present.

Bye,
Mosè