[AUCTeX] Re: Asking AUCTEX to accept ".latex" extension

[Pierre Lorenzon]

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Subject: Asking AUCTEX to accept ".latex" extension
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:12:18 -0700 (PDT)

> Just today I enabled AUCTEX.  I have skimmed the AUCTEX doc
> but haven't found how to augment the set of extensions that
> AUCTEX will recognize as source files.
> 
> I have several hundred files; some have extension ".latex",
> some ".amstex" and some ".tex".  In Emacs, when I visit,
> say, "ergodic.latex", type C-c C-c and select the LaTeX
> option, the TeX buffer displays
> 
>     ...
>     ! I can't find file `ergodic.latex.tex'.
> 
> Is there an AUCTEX regexp-variable that I can set so that
> latex will be run on "ergodic.latex"?  (I would prefer not

  I forwarded your message on auctex mailing list which seems
  to be more accurate but try to customize TeX-file-extensions.

  Regards

  Pierre


> to rename my files, if possible.)
> 
> 
> NB: The value of TeX-master in "ergodic.latex" is `nil',
> and the first line of the file is
> 
> %     -*-\latex-*-
> 
> --
> Prof. Jonathan King    Mathematics dept, Univ. of Florida