Re: [AUCTeX] Re: archive of this list

[David Kastrup]

Hannes Rist <address@hidden> writes:

> Joost Kremers <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 03:16:11PM +0000, Bernhard Kleine wrote:
> *snip*
>>> And: how to get pdflatex automatically activated for a given tex-file?
>>
>> just put the following file-local variable in the relevant tex file:
>>
>> %%% TeX-PDF-mode: t
>>
>> (all the way at the bottom, where the other file-local variables
>> are. that's to say, any tex file created with auctex should contain
>> several.)
>
> (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook (lambda () (tex-pdf-mode))) in your .emacs
> file.
> I use this, though I'm not sure if it has any bad side-effects.

Of course it has.  Several.  For one thing, it does not work since
TeX-PDF-mode is misspelt.  For another, it _toggles_ the current setting
of TeX-PDF-mode rather than switching it on.  For another, it is hard to
override.

Instead just do

M-x customize-variable RET TeX-PDF-mode RET

Set this to on and save the customizations.  That changes the default
for everything, but can be overriden on a per-file basis like above.

-- 
David Kastrup