Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: [AUCTeX-diffs] Changes to auctex/tex.el

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> Now on second thought ... it is probably better to do it the way you
> are proposing.  For people with a sensible setup it should not make
> a difference because they load tex-site.el at startup, set the
> default for `TeX-PDF-mode' in the init file which gets recognized
> upon loading the first LaTeX file which coincides with loading
> tex.el.  But I've seen it too often that people try to load latex.el
> in their init files.  And if `TeX-PDF-mode' was set after this
> happened, testing at load time would fail.  So it is better to do it
> during mode initialization.  Thanks for reminding me.

Perhaps the default value should be changed to nil then?  Presumably
with the current code something would have to be wrong or inconsistent
now when it does not get set before it is used.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum