Re: About LaTeX/TeX modes

["T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>]

Could you say where/how you configured auctex to do the auto-insertion
 of the mode setting?Arash Esbati writes:
 > "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:
 > 
 > > Not quite.
 > > Getting auctex-mode defined modes to become operational feels more
 > > complex than it needs to be
 > 
 > For me, AUCTeX always inserts the mode into the local variables block
 > when I open a new file like:
 > 
 >   %%% Local Variables:
 >   %%% mode: latex
 >   %%% TeX-master: t
 >   %%% End:
 > 
 > or
 > 
 >   %%% Local Variables:
 >   %%% mode: latex
 >   %%% TeX-master: "other-tex-file"
 >   %%% End:
 > 
 > so the complexity behind the scenes shouldn't be visible to the users.
 > 
 > > and I've never understood (30+ years and counting) as to why Emacs
 > > hasn't yet just made Auctex the default Tex editing package for emacs;
 > > I note that we have adopted far newer packages as the default in more
 > > recent times.
 > 
 > Getting AUCTeX into Emacs is still a mission statement in the RELEASE
 > file[1] which says:
 > 
 >   Future development and additional information
 >   ---------------------------------------------
 > 
 >   AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of
 >   merging it into Emacs.  For that reason, all new contributors need to
 >   assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual
 >   procedure for Emacs contributors).
 > 
 > My personal view on this is that ELPA works fine for AUCTeX and the goal
 > above isn't high on the todo list anymore.
 > 
 > > Many years ago I made the following my default first line in .tex files:
 > >
 > > % foo.tex: -*- mode: LaTeX -*-
 > >
 > > and it works as in gets the mode from auctex -- but asking 
 > > describe-function about the mode still shows the one from the emacs
 > > install, not from auctex.
 > >
 > > latex-mode is defaliased to 
 > > LaTeX-mode in tex-mode.el
 > > Library is file
 > > /usr/local/share/emacs/29.0.50/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.elc
 > 
 > See above, a prop-line shouldn't be needed.  But yes, AUCTeX loads
 > tex-mode.el and builds its functionality on top of it.
 > 
 > As a side note: I think tex-mode.el has still a user base, so replacing
 > it maybe upset some people.
 > 
 > Best, Arash
 > 
 > Footnotes:
 > [1]  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/auctex.git/tree/RELEASE#n194

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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1  🦮