Re: unfortunate "feature interaction" of org-export and emacs-latex-auctex mode

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2015-11-09, at 19:54, Martin Steffen <msteffen@ifi.uio.no> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Perhaps it's not really a "fault" of org (nor of auctex), but both
> things interact unfortunate. 
>
> The reason is: when I export org to LaTeX, and I visit the latex file
> afterwards, I want that auctex/emacs is instructed about some facts. Thus I
> like to have some lines such as
>
> %%% Local Variables: 
> %%% mode: latex
> %%% TeX-master: t
> %%% End: 
>
> at the end of the latex file. Org allows that, in that I add the
> "LATEX-only" export at the end of the org-file
>
> #+BEGIN_LATEX
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> %%% Local Variables: 
> %%% mode: latex
> %%% TeX-master: t
> %%% End: 
> #+END_LATEX
>
>
> Doing that produces the desired lines at the end of the generated latex, and
> if I visit the latex file, emacs/auctex is instructed according to my wishes.
>
>
> Now the problem: If I refresh the /org/ file, emacs/org thinks that actually
> the file is a latex file (due to the line "mode: latex") and switches from
> org-mode to latex-mode.
>
>
> It's a minor thing, obviously, but I just wonder if there's an easy workaround.

Note: this is a terrible hack, so use it your own risk, only if there's
no sane alternative etc.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+BEGIN_COMMENT
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%% Local Variables: 
%%% mode: org
%%% End: 
#+END_COMMENT
#+BEGIN_LATEX
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%% Local Variables: 
%%% mode: latex
%%% TeX-master: t
%%% End: 
#+END_LATEX
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> Martin

Hth,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University