Re: How to properly load AUCTeX for Emacs 23+

[Sebastien Vauban]

Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com> writes:
>
>> Trying to make the smallest Emacs configuration needed for editing
>> LaTeX with AUCTeX (which has to work as well for Emacs 23)
>
> Your snippets indicate that you are using AUCTeX from ELPA.  In this
> case, the smallest (and strongly recommended) configuration to load
> AUCTeX properly is to have no configuration at all.

OK. Thanks for confirming.

> I've just created a new test user on my machine, fired up a fresh emacs
> with it, installed auctex 11.87.4, and then edited a new tex file.
> AUCTeX was loaded successfully and used in the resulting buffer, and
> preview was also there (though I didn't test it because I just had a
> terminal session).

Though, my question is more for people who would still use Emacs 23:
they don't have such an easy solution as for Emacs 24 -- though I now
see that, after downloading a custom package, they should be able to use
"package.el" (see http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ELPA#toc9).

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban