Re: latex-mode hook?

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Yeah, this is what I'm saying, you can never rely on
>>> case sensitivity in a "case" like this: to describe
>>> two distinct things, that nevertheless serve the
>>> same purpose and do a lot of virtually identical
>>> things. This will make for confusion time and again,
>>> for sure.
>>
>> So - which mode am I running? I assume LaTeX-mode, but
>> how to find out without doubt?
>
> It looks like you are running latex-mode, i.e., not the
> AUCTeX mode.
>
> In my mode line, it says "LaTeX" for the latex-mode.
> The reason I know is as simple as brilliant: I don't
> have AUCTeX installed.
>
> Here is what it says on `C-h m'. 

ups, should have been the obvious thing to do

>     LaTeX mode defined in `tex-mode.el':
>     Major mode for editing files of input for LaTeX.
>
> If it is the same for you, I think it is safe to say
> you run latex-mode as well. If not, you run AUCTeX
> mode. Unless they aliased this as well...

Luckily C-h m gives me:

,----
| LaTeX/P mode defined in `tex-site.el':
| Major mode in AUCTeX for editing LaTeX files.
| See info under AUCTeX for full documentation.
`----

so I did not think "AUCTeX is great" all these years without actually
using it ;) 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten