Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes: > Not in my case: (latex-mode) loads the standard tex mode. How do you > get auctex loaded? I thought it was a separate package that needs > special initialization: (load "auctex.el" nil t t) is what the > documentation says. And I have 11.86 which I believe is latest > available, but I might be behind the times: I haven't worried about it > in a few years.
I use the AUCTeX distribution provided by the GNU ELPA. By default ELPA packages are enabled after reading the init file and before running after-init-hook. FWIW if you start emacs with -q, you have to initialise ELPA packages manually via M-x package-initialize RET. Christopher