Re: [AUCTeX] manipulating sections with auc-tex

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * 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.

outline.el does not need to be loaded before you start AUCTeX.  I see
no reasonably working way to find out whether the variable is
available at run time.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum