Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] minor annoyance when opening tex file in carbon emacs

[Artemio Gonzalez Lopez]

On Feb 6, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Ralf Angeli wrote:

> * Artemio Gonzalez Lopez (2008-02-05) writes:
>
> > I am experiencing a minor annoyance when opening tex files in carbon
> > emacs 21.1.1 (he one provided by Apple with Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard").
> > Namely, immediately after the file is opened it is marked as "not
> > saved", so that if I close it without making any changes I am asked  
> > if
> > I would like to save it, etc. I think this is an auctex thing, since
> > it does not happen when I open other text files, or if I don't load
> > auctex. Is there any setting I have unknowingly activated which is
> > responsible for this strange behavior? Any help would be appreciated!
>
> I don't have a particular suspicion, so for me the cause might be hard
> to identify.  I'd start with making sure that AUCTeX is compiled with
> the Emacs version you are using.  Then I'd check if the problem  
> persists
> if Emacs is started with
> emacs -q -no-site-file -l auctex
> making sure that font locking is disabled.

Ralf,

In fact, the problem disappears when I disable x-symbol (even if  
auctex is loaded), so it's most likely some kind of interaction  
between x-symbol and auctex. That's too bad, because x-symbol is no  
longer maintained. OTOH, I only use x-symbol for encoding-decoding  
accented letters and the like. In other words, when I edit a tex  
buffer I can type á and get x-symbol to write \'a to file when I save,  
and viceversa (\'a in a tex file is displayed as á in its buffer if x- 
symbol is activated). Do you know any (modern) package that has that  
capability and can be used with auctex? Alternatively, would it be  
possible (or rather convenient:-) to somehow merge x-symbol (or at  
least part of it) into auctex?

Thanks a lot for your help,

Artemio