Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] Re: Auctex do not ask for the master file

[David Kastrup]

Olive <address@hidden> writes:

> Ralf Angeli wrote:
>> * Olive (2007-04-28) writes:
>>
>>> (setq TeX-master nil)
>>
>> This should be `setq-default' and not `setq'.
>>
>>> I have the problem that auctex never ask for the master file (even
>>> for files that does not contains \documentclass) and apparently
>>> always assume that the current file is the master file. Normally
>>> with TeX-master set to nil, it should ask. Notice that all works
>>> properly if I manually do a M-x TeX-master-file-ask
>>
>> The question for the master file is only asked for new files, not for
>> existing ones, as explained in the description of
>> `TeX-master-file-ask'.  (See (info "(auctex)Multifile").)
>
> Thank you;
>
> I have missed this point (have read the manual but too fast -:) )

For what it is worth: the current behavior is a bl... nuisance if you
want to create a file in any but the default TeX mode
(plain/LaTeX/Context) since it nails down the format in a file
variable before you have a chance of changing the mode.

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