Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] TeX-style-path variable misbehaving

[David Kastrup]

William McCallum <address@hidden> writes:

> It used to work for me too, under older version of auctex I had
> until now (11.14 or so).

Seems like you still have it.

> Well, this didn't seem to load anything ... TeX-style-path was
> undefined. But your question made me realize that I was still
> loading auctex in my .emacs file the old way, with (load "tex-site")
> rather than (load "auctex.el"). Once I changed that the problem went
> away. This seems a bit strange to me, but then I don't really
> understand what auctex.el is doing anyway. Sorry that I didn't
> notice this before.

auctex.el does very little.  Basically all it does is load the
_correct_ tex-site.el in a way that can be undone.

If this makes a difference for you, then you likely have an incorrect
tex-site.el flying around in your load-path.

Try

M-x list-load-path-shadows RET

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