[OS X TeX] Emacs 22.92, %! and TeXShop
Peter Dyballa
Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE
Fri Jan 26 10:37:23 CET 2007
Am 26.01.2007 um 02:34 schrieb Stephen Moye:
> 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.
(Did you re-byte-compile files.el? Did you create a new Emacs?
Files.el is dumped into GNU Emacs.)
"Markers" inside the file take precedence over file name extensions.
Actually Emacs' description of what makes a PostScript file is
faulty. %! at the start of the first line is not enough (although it
mostly works). I corrected Emacs' setting with
(add-to-list 'magic-mode-alist '("%!PS-Adobe" . ps-mode))
which seems to work fine.
>
> 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.
Yes. The reason is in TeXShop: it's author(s) make it an
imperialistic device similiar to Adobe Reader and its PDF plug-in:
the first line is allowed to only contain what TeXShop understands.
It won't keep pace with GNU Emacs that helpfully accepts a line like
%!TEX TS-program = latex -*- mode: LaTeX; coding: iso-8859-9; -*-
>
> Any suggestions? Or, alternatively, where else should I more
> appropriately post this query?
>
Forget TeXShop! Dump it on the dung-hill of computer history!
Of course you can complain on the Mac OS X TeX list, but Dick Koch
does not seem to like a helpful design in TeXShop.
And of course you can teach Emacs to understand the TeXShop syntax.
Particularly AUCTeX could be taught to use the TS-program for
compilation instead of
%%% TeX-command-default: "<some engine file>"
Would be interesting to now what other TeXing applications use to
remember the file's mode and TeXing command – to which extent their
imperialism has grown ...
--
Greetings
Pete
There is no national science just as there is no national
multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
-- Anton Checov
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