Re: The org--math-p advice around texmathp

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Tony Zorman <tony.zorman@tu-dresden.de> writes:

>> Because Org mode syntax is not LaTeX and `texmathp' assumes that we are inside
>> LaTeX buffer. So, we first check using Org syntax whether the point is
>> inside latex fragment in Org sense.
>
> But isn't what Org calls LaTeX math pretty equivalent to what would
> count as the same in a LaTeX buffer? From a quick scan of texmathp.el, I
> couldn't actually see a hard-dependency on a TeX-derived mode at all. I
> wouldn't really care about this so much, but the fact that the Org
> variant just misreports the position is a bit unfortunate, in my
> opinion.

No, there is a difference.

For example, something like \alpha is a valid Org mode entity.
Without `org--math-p' advice, if you do "`a" in Org buffer with
org-cdlatex-mode, you will see $\alpha$ inserted. With the advice, just
\alpha will be inserted.

There are likely other similar edge cases.

We would not choose to advice third-party function without a strong
reason.

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