double quote in latex mode

[C.M. Klaij]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i586-suse-linux, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-03-17 on E205
configured using `configure '--with-gcc' '--with-pop' '--with-system-malloc' 
'--prefix=/usr' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' 
'--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--with-x' '--with-xpm' 
'--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' 
'--with-x-toolkit=lucid' '--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include' 
'--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib' 'i586-suse-linux' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 
-march=i586 -mcpu=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -pipe          
-DSYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA=25000    -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=10000         
-D_GNU_SOURCE ' 'LDFLAGS=-s' 'build_alias=i586-suse-linux' 
'host_alias=i586-suse-linux' 'target_alias=i586-suse-linux''
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

The double quote key in latex mode is not working correctly:

if I use it once I get two accents (``)

if I use it twice, I first get the two accents (``) and these
are then replaced with the correct double quote (")

if I use the double quote in *scratch* it directly gives 
the correct result.

The reason I encountered this problem is that the double quote 
is needed to specify the root file at the end of an include file:

%%% Local Variables:
%%% mode: latex
%%% TeX-master: "../rootfile"
%%% End: 

If instead I use:

%%% TeX-master: ``../rootfile``

auctex does not recognize the master file.

These are my settings form the .emacs file:

(require 'tex-site) 
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex) 
(setq reftex-enable-partial-scans t)
(setq reftex-save-parse-info t)
(setq reftex-use-multiple-selection-buffers t)
(setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t)


Recent input:
e r a t i v e SPC s o l v e r SPC <left> <left> <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <end> 
f o r m SPC $ <backspace> P E T S c <left> <left> <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <delete> 
<right> o <end> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> 
t h e SPC <end> SPC p a c k a g e . C-x C-s C-c C-c 
<return> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <re
port-emacs-bug>

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