Broken installation?

[circumspect.readabilities830 at aceecat.org]

On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 07:31:22AM -0500, Haines Brown via tex-live wrote:

> For one thing, I also installed AUCTeX by means of ELPA. However, it
> does not load when emacs opens a .tex file. In order for AUCTeX to
> load I have to put this line nto my .emacs file: (load "auctex.el"
> nil t t)

This is by design, and is better discussed in an Emacs specific forum.

Short version: you need to add an entry to the variable
`auto-mode-alist'.

-- 
Ian