Index: lisp/international/latexenc.el
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/international/latexenc.el,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -p -r1.11 latexenc.el
--- lisp/international/latexenc.el	2 Dec 2005 13:24:11 -0000	1.11
+++ lisp/international/latexenc.el	22 Jan 2006 14:22:40 -0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ;;; latexenc.el --- guess correct coding system in LaTeX files
 
-;; Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 ;; Author: Arne J,Ax(Brgensen <arne@arnested.dk>
 ;; Keywords: mule, coding system, latex
@@ -156,7 +156,8 @@ coding system names is determined from `
                                        "")
                                  ".tex" ".ltx" ".dtx" ".drv"))
                     (if (and (null latexenc-main-file) ;Stop at first.
-                             (file-exists-p (concat file ext)))
+                             (file-regular-p (concat file ext))
+                             (file-readable-p (concat file ext)))
                         (setq latexenc-main-file (concat file ext)))))))
             ;; try tex-modes tex-guess-main-file
             (when (and (not latexenc-dont-use-tex-guess-main-file-flag)