Re: auto-coding-function for LaTeX

[David Kastrup]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

> Arne Jørgensen <address@hidden> writes:
>> I look a bit more in to it. And it actually seems more reasonable to
>> put the function (slightly changed) into `file-coding-system-alist'.
>> [...]
>> (add-to-list 'file-coding-system-alist '("\\.tex\\|\\.ltx\\'" . 
>> latex-find-file-coding-system))
>
> I think this is not the most right thing to do since there may
> be LaTeX file extensions other than .tex and .ltx.  The standard value
> of `auto-mode-alist' has also .sty, .cl[so], .bbl as file extensions
> corresponding to latex-mode.  And users can add own mappings to
> `auto-mode-alist' or use `-*- mode:latex -*-' headers.
> In that case `file-coding-system-alist' wouldn't work.

In all of the mentioned cases, the files are not supposed to carry an
inputenc declaration.  So this is not a particularly compelling
reason.  However, we also have, say, .dtx and .drv files.

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