When I use environment variables (such as $HOME) in a .tex file, the $ triggers math mode syntax highlighting. The result is that the rest of the buffer, until the next $, is highlighted as if it were in math mode. Some examples:
\includegraphics{$HOME/path/to/graphic} \bibliography{$HOME/path/to/bib1,$HOME/path/to/bib2} I currently use the following hack to get around this behavior: \bibliography{% $HOME/path/to/bib1,%$ $HOME/path/to/bib2,%$ } where the second $ on each line "closes" the math mode for syntax-highlighting purposes, so at least the rest of the buffer is not affected. Blake ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5) of 2014-12-09 on gaia, modified by Debian Package: 11.88 current state: ============== (setq AUCTeX-date "2014-10-29" window-system 'x LaTeX-version "2e" TeX-style-path '("~/.emacs.d/auctex" "/home/blake/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.88/style" "/home/blake/.emacs.d/auctex/auto" "/home/blake/.emacs.d/auctex/style" "auto" "style") TeX-auto-save nil TeX-parse-self nil TeX-master t TeX-command-list '(("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) %(extraopts) %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (plain-tex-mode ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode) :help "Run plain TeX") ("LaTeX" "%`%l%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (latex-mode doctex-mode) :help "Run LaTeX") ("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %(extraopts) %t" TeX-run-compile nil (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with Info output") ("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo %(extraopts) --html %t" TeX-run-compile nil (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with HTML output") ("AmSTeX" "%(PDF)amstex %(extraopts) %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (ams-tex-mode) :help "Run AMSTeX") ("ConTeXt" "texexec --once --texutil %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt once") ("ConTeXt Full" "texexec %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt until completion") ("BibTeX" "bibtex %s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil t :help "Run BibTeX") ("Biber" "biber %s" TeX-run-Biber nil t :help "Run Biber") ("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard-or-function t t :help "Run Viewer") ("Print" "%p" TeX-run-command t t :help "Print the file") ("Queue" "%q" TeX-run-background nil t :help "View the printer queue" :visible TeX-queue-command) ("File" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-command t t :help "Generate PostScript file") ("Index" "makeindex %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help "Create index file") ("Xindy" "texindy %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help "Run xindy to create index file") ("Check" "lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode) :help "Check LaTeX file for correctness") ("ChkTeX" "chktex -v6 %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode) :help "Check LaTeX file for common mistakes") ("Spell" "(TeX-ispell-document \"\")" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Spell-check the document") ("Clean" "TeX-clean" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Delete generated intermediate files") ("Clean All" "(TeX-clean t)" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Delete generated intermediate and output files") ("Other" "" TeX-run-command t t :help "Run an arbitrary command") ) ) _______________________________________________ bug-auctex mailing list bug-auctex@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-auctex