GNU bug report logs - #78587
[PATCH] TeX-find-macro-end

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Package: auctex;

Reported by: "Paul D. Nelson" <ultrono <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 25 May 2025 15:15:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>

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From: "Paul D. Nelson" <ultrono <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-auctex <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] TeX-find-macro-end
Date: Sun, 25 May 2025 17:14:44 +0200
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Hi all,

I noticed that TeX-find-macro-end doesn't work as expected way on, e.g.,

  \begin{enumerate}[a)]

The issue arose organically when folding such macros.

To see the basic issue, evaluate the following in scratch:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(mapcar
 (lambda (str)
   (with-temp-buffer
     (LaTeX-mode)
     (insert str)
     (char-to-string (char-before (TeX-find-macro-end-helper (point-min))))))
 '("\begin{enumerate}[a]"
   "\begin{enumerate}[(a)]"
   "\begin{enumerate}[a)]"))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This returns ("]" "]" ")") but should return ("]" "]" "]").

The attached patch seems to address the issue by using a stripped syntax
table, which seems like a standard approach in tex.el.  Any feedback
would be welcome.

Paul

[0001-Fix-TeX-macro-end-detection-in-some-edge-cases.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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