Broken installation?

[Arash Esbati]

circumspect.readabilities830 at aceecat.org writes:

> 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,

Nope.  By design, AUCTeX should just work OOTB when installed from ELPA.
The easiest way to check the installation is to start Emacs as

  emacs -Q

and then eval the following in the scratch buffer:

  (progn
    (package-initialize t)
    (package-activate 'auctex))

Now open a .tex file and if AUCTeX isn't loaded, then the installation
is broken.  I suggest to uninstall AUCTeX via the

  M-x list-packages RET

interface, close and restart Emacs, and then install AUCTeX again from
the same interface.

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

Again nope.  AUCTeX takes care of everything in the background.  I
recommend to have a look at the manual:

  https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/doc/auctex.html#Installation
  https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/doc/auctex.html#Activating-the-package

Best, Arash