Re: AUCTeX and "builtin latex mode" integration

[Stefan Monnier]

Stefan Monnier [2022-09-25 10:01:40] wrote:
>> 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).

Oh, I see where that happens (and why it doesn't happen if we redirect
with `defalias`).


        Stefan