Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.z...@gmail.com> writes: > 1. You said: > > "emacs -Q" session resulted in built-in latex mode > > Yes. This is true in all my testings. > > After the above step 1, I observed the following behavior: > > 2. If AUCTeX hasn't installed by `package-install', after I installed > it by `package-install' and open a .tex file, then AUCTeX LaTeX mode > will be enabled automatically. > > 3. If AUCTeX has already installed by `package-install', after I > re-installed it by `package-reinstall' and open a .tex file, then > *still* AUCTeX LaTeX mode will be enabled automatically. > > 4. If AUCTeX has already installed by `package-install', and I open a > .tex file immediately without reinstall AUCTeX, then AUCTeX LaTeX mode > will *not* be enabled automatically and the built-in latex mode still > will be effective for the opened tex buffer.
If the auctex ELPA package is already installed but you started with emacs -Q, you can simply do M-x package-initialize RET to activate all installed packages or, even better for debugging purposes, do M-: (progn (package-initialize t) (package-activate 'auctex)) RET to only activate auctex and no other package. Then you are running as if you had no site config, no personal config, and no package except auctex installed. Bye, Tassilo
