On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 11:12 -0500, Ted Pavlic wrote:
> > Just to comment on this, when using main.latexmain compilation works
> > but auto-completion by<F9> does not. main.tex.latexmain works fine
> > for both compilation and auto-completion.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure this is a (minor) bug, should I report it?
>
> I don't think that's necessary. It doesn't seem like a bug in the strict
> sense (e.g., my car's performance on the highway is severely hampered by
> leaving the doors and tailgate open while driving... but that doesn't
> necessarily indicate a flaw in the car's design).
>
> I think it was always intended to use main.tex.latexmain and not
> main.latexmain (that's why the documentation only refers to
> main.tex.latexmain, IIRC). It just so happens that main.latexmain
> happens to work. Personally, I've exploited some of the bugs (e.g., that
> when I put commands in main.latexmain, no extra buffer is opened...
> while main.tex.latexmain seems to open a second buffer) as features...
> but I don't see a reason to support the use of main.latexmain officially
> at the moment (of course, if someone sees the /need/ for main.latexmain,
> functionality could be added that is either identical or different than
> main.tex.latexmain, but the details should be illuminated in the
> documentation).
Okay, the only reason I brought it up is that you recommended
main.latexmain =). Was quite surprised to see that it broke completion,
would think its quite unusable in that case (how do you use latex
without citing, after all).
Cheers
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