Thanks, Tassilo.
It turns out that the problem is caused by another line of my .emacs file,
which I want to append the load-path,
(setq load-path (append (list nil "~/lisp") load-path))
if the "nil" is deleted, it works fine. But I don't understand why adding the current directory to load-path messes up the loading of AUCTeX. I don't have any lisp package s in my current directory.
>>Hi Shiyuan,
>> I want to swap the C-j and C-m key. According to the documentation,
>> AUCTeX will evaluate the LaTeX-mode-hook so I add the following to my
>> .emacs,
>>
>> (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook (lambda()
>> (local-set-key (kbd "C-m")
>> 'reindent-then-newline-and->>indent)))
>> (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook (lambda()
>> (local-set-key (kbd "C-j") 'newline)))
>Looks good, I'd say.
>> However, it has no effect. It seems it's not evaluated at all.
>Are you sure that AUCTeX is really loaded? If it is, then the output of
>C-h f latex-mode RET is:
>,----[ C-h f latex-mode RET ]
>| latex-mode is an alias for `TeX-latex-mode' in `tex-site.el'.
>|
>| (latex-mode)
>|
>| Major mode in AUCTeX for editing LaTeX files.
>| See info under AUCTeX for full documentation.
>|
>| [...]
>`----
>If AUCTeX is not loaded, then the standard emacs latex-mode (that
>doesn't define/use LaTeX-mode-hook) is used producing this output:
>
>,----[ C-h f latex-mode RET (in emacs -Q)]
>| latex-mode is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `tex-mode.el'.
>|
>| (latex-mode)
>|
>| Parent mode: `tex-mode'.
>`----
>
>Bye,
>Tassilo