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From: ram-ashwin@YALE.ARPA (Ashwin Ram)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Closing LaTeX blocks
Message-ID: <8802230342.AA12720@ATHENA.CS.YALE.EDU>
Date: 23 Feb 88 03:42:41 GMT
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Does anyone have code that recognizes "\begin{foo} ... \end{foo}" pairs in a
LaTeX file as a "balanced pair"?  In particular, I'm looking for something
that would validate a buffer, indicate a mismatch (just as for different
kinds of parens), and insert the correct \end{...} expression upon hitting a
key, depending on the current \begin{...} expression that you're in?  I have
code that just searches back to the previous \begin{...} expression, which is
nicer than the default TeX-close-LaTeX-block function but still a long way
from knowing about \begin{...}'s that have already been \end'ed.

Ideally, "\begin{foo}" and "\end{foo}" should behave like a parenthesis pair.
If you have code that does this, could you please e-mail it to me or post it
to comp.emacs?

Thanks.

-- Ashwin.

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