[Bug-AUCTeX] Re: 11.84; texinfo mode provided by AUCTeX is not activated.

[Ralf Angeli]

Full quote for maximum of information since this is a rather old
message.

* David Kastrup (2007-03-17) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> * Ikumi Keita (2007-03-13) writes:
>>
>>>>>>>> Ralf Angeli writes:
>>>
>>>> Putting
>>>
>>>> (when (and (boundp 'TeX-modes)
>>>>       (memq 'texinfo-mode TeX-modes))
>>>>   (TeX-modes-set 'TeX-modes TeX-modes t))
>>>
>>>> right after the `(require 'texinfo)' call into tex-info.el fixes the
>>>> problem for me.  
>>>
>>> This works for me, too.
>>>
>>>> However, I am not sure if this is the right fix or if
>>>> e.g. a simple `(defalias 'texinfo-mode 'TeX-texinfo-mode)' would
>>>> suffice.
>>>
>>> This works as well, while I'm also unsure about the correctness of these
>>> methods.
>>
>> I was hoping for David to comment since he wrote the code for loading
>> and unloading AUCTeX modes.
>
> I have an unfortunately large backlog on several fronts now, and it
> does not help that in the last three weeks I had a bad case of virus
> flu, the Dante conference in parallel with sinus and ear infection,
> tinnitus and neck pain and stuff like that, and the deadlines for
> EuroTeX looming as well as the necessity to fix some bigfoot problems
> at the moment.  There have also been a few preview-related reports I
> have not been able to look at yet in the last few weeks.  I am well
> aware that I am not overly useful at the moment, but can't really help
> it much.  The stuff is not forgotten, just piled up.

I still have the patch mentioned above sitting in my source tree and
would check it in if you decided that this is the correct method for
fixing the bug.  (This is the only "unclean" file in my source tree
which I'd like to take care of before relicensing everything to GPLv3.)

-- 
Ralf