auto-mode-alist latex-mode

auto-mode-alist latex-mode

[Joakim Hove]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-08-29 on astest
configured using `configure  --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gcc --with-pop --with-sound'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.iso885915
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Hello,

this is not a real bug - rather a suggestion: I would 
strongly suggest that the default extension binding in 
auto-mode-alist was such that "\\.tex'" was associated 
with latex-mode, and *not* tex-mode. Currently the 
extension "\\.ltx'" is associated with latex-mode - but 
really who uses that extension when editing latex-files?

Regards

Joakim Hove


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Re: auto-mode-alist latex-mode

[Richard Stallman]

    this is not a real bug - rather a suggestion: I would 
    strongly suggest that the default extension binding in 
    auto-mode-alist was such that "\\.tex'" was associated 
    with latex-mode, and *not* tex-mode.

The function tex-mode checks the contents of the file to decide
whether to use latex-mode or plain-tex-mode.  That ought to 
be correct.  Why do you think it is wrong?