Jeremy Bryant <j...@jeremybryant.net> writes: > There are however at least 2 scenarios where there are benefits to > having auctex, a functional albeit perhaps not the most recent version, > in a distribution of Emacs. > > 1. > New LaTeX users can discover and try auctex straightaway. If they > want to upgrade, they also can. (e.g. case of org-mode)
One obstacle was that AUCTeX took over the hook names of the built-in mode, so putting AUCTeX into core wasn't feasible until now, at least this was my understanding. FWIW, this is resolved with v14.x, > 2. > Some sites don't allow downloading of packages (for policy or security > reasons), so all users have access to is whatever is included in their > Emacs distribution (and indeed their system distro). (e.g. some > corporate environments.) You can still download the tarball form ELPA and do 'M-x package-install-file RET': ,----[ C-h f package-install-file RET ] | package-install-file is an autoloaded interactive subr-native-elisp in | ‘package.el’. | | (package-install-file FILE) | | Install a package from FILE. | The file can either be a tar file, an Emacs Lisp file, or a | directory. | | Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 25.1. | `---- > Perhaps this is a question I'll bring up on emac-devel, I was just > wondering if there was any perspective from auctex developers. > Thoughts welcome. Putting AUCTeX into core was one of project targets[1], I can't tell where it currently stands on the list. Best, Arash Footnotes: [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/auctex.git/tree/RELEASE#n79
