Re: AUCTeX and "builtin latex mode" integration

[Stefan Monnier]

> 1. Suppose that the file has %%% mode:latex as file variable. When emacs
> opens this file, it runs `latex-mode' accordingly, which in turn runs
> AUCTeX `LaTeX-mode' by redirectiton. Then it sets `major-mode' to
> `LaTeX-mode'.  After that, `hack-local-variables' runs; it sees that
> `major mode' doesn't match the %%% mode:latex line and runs `latex-mode'
> again.

Why would `hack-local-variables` do that ?
AFAIK vanilla Emacs doesn't do such a thing (I just tried it in
Emacs-29 to confirm).


        Stefan