Re: Patch for tex-mode.el (more compatibility with AUCTeX)

[David Kastrup]

Markus Rost <address@hidden> writes:

> Currently tex-mode supports the variable TeX-master (from AUCTeX) if
> it is a string.  See lines 1694-1698 in tex-mode.el.  I suggest to
> support the variable TeX-master also if it is set to 't.  In that
> case the "master" of the file is the file itself, so the right thing
> is to run TeX on the buffer's file.  What about the following patch
> for tex-mode.el?  Stefan?
>
> I have a bunch of old .tex files which have Local Variable sections
> created by AUCTeX.  The patch would make tex-mode handle those files
> better.

BTW, while there probably is nothing speaking against that patch, I'd
be interested in hearing why you would not go for the obvious
"solution", namely just using AUCTeX, which you obviously have been
using before at some time.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum