[OS X TeX] Emacs 22.92, %! and TeXShop

[Jens Noeckel]

On Jan 25, 2007, at 5:41 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:

> On Jan 25, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:
>
>> I just started using emacs 22.92 -- I have been using emacs 22.50.  
>> Unlike v22.50, when I open a TeXShop TeX file with emacs 22.92, it  
>> is opened as a PostScript file. I imagined that it had something  
>> to do with the first line of the file:
>>
>> 	%!TEX TS-program = latex
>>
>> Sure enough, I went digging using
>>
>> 	C-h v auto-mode-alist
>>
>> and found a line in files.el:
>>
>> 	("%![^V]" . ps-mode)
>>
>> in addition to what I expected:
>>
>> 	("\\.[tT]e[xX]\\'" . tex-mode)
>>
>> So emacs is looking inside the file to make a better guess about  
>> what kind of file it is. I tried changing
>>
>> 	("%![^V]" . ps-mode)
>>
>> to
>>
>> 	("%![^VT]" . ps-mode)
>>
>> but that did not work.
>>
>> I really like emacs 22.nn, but this is a bit of a bother. Can I  
>> put something in my .emacs file to counter this unwanted  
>> cleverness? I know that I can put
>>
>> 	%-*-latex-*-
>>
>> as the first line of the file and both emacs and TeXShop will be  
>> happy, but that seems an unnecessary complication.
>>
>> Any suggestions? Or, alternatively, where else should I more  
>> appropriately post this query?
>>
>> Thank you for any insights.
>
> Sorry, but I should have mentioned that I am using emacs under X11.
>
>
>
> Stephen
>

Stephen,
not knowing what exactly is in your .emacs already, I would suggest  
adding the line

           (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.tex$" . tex-mode) auto- 
mode-alist))

as close to the end of .emacs as possible (so that it doesn't get  
overridden by other associations - the order of these things matters).

Jens



------------------------- Helpful Info -------------------------
Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/
List Reminders & Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/