Re: orgmode and auctex

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au> wrote:

> I've had a small problem with orgmode and auctex.  Follwing the auctex quickstart I added the
> following to my .emacs
> 
> (setq-default TeX-master nil)
> 
> and then from the orgmode FAQ to setup reftex in orgmode I added the following
> 
> (defun org-mode-reftex-setup ()
>   (load-library "reftex")
>   (and (buffer-file-name)
>        (file-exists-p (buffer-file-name))
>        (reftex-parse-all))
>   (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c )") 'reftex-citation))
> (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'org-mode-reftex-setup)
> 
> With both of these, whenever I opened an org file I was asked to name the master file.  If I comment
> out the setq-default I don't get the behaviour I would like with mulitfile tex files.  My solution
> was to change
> 
> (setq-default TeX-master nil)
> 
> to
> 
> (add-hook 'TeX-mode-hook (lambda ()
>                (setq-default TeX-master nil)))
> 
> I then appear to get the behaviour I desire.  Is this a good way to do this?  If so I might add it
> to the FAQ.
> 

Probably not. setq-default sets the default value of the variable
whereas the hook is supposed to set the local value in order to override
the default value: setting the default value from a hook seems backwards
to me.

Actually, I added the above code (*without* the TeX-mode-hook mod) to my
minimal .emacs and opening org files does not generate any questions. Are
you sure you have diagnosed the problem correctly?

Nick