Re: latex-mode hook?

[Sebastien Vauban]

Sebastien Vauban wrote:
> Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
>> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
>>
>>> AFAIK, latex-mode is the built-in, very limited LaTeX mode, and
>>> LaTeX-mode is the AUCTeX's one (which is much, much better - think
>>> autocompletion, for instance).  Also the texmathp function.  And
>>> parsing of \usepackage[...]{inputenc}.  And more.
>>
>> A bit confusing is that I have AUCTEX installed and see LaTeX/P in the
>> mode line, but
>>
>> ,----
>> | M-: major-mode
>> `----
>>
>> returns 'latex-mode', not 'LaTeX-mode'. 
>
> IIRC, AUCTeX aliases latex-mode to LaTeX-mode. This can explain that.

BTW, I *never* understood why AUCTeX mode isn't simply called "AUCTeX"
in the mode line and so forth: using the case-sensitivity to distinguish
between both versions of LaTeX support (the default one, and the AUCTeX
one) is clearly asking for trouble.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban