Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: [AUCTeX-diffs] Changes to auctex/tex.el

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2005-04-07) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Now on second thought ... it is probably better to do it the way you
>> are proposing.  For people with a sensible setup it should not make
>> a difference because they load tex-site.el at startup, set the
>> default for `TeX-PDF-mode' in the init file which gets recognized
>> upon loading the first LaTeX file which coincides with loading
>> tex.el.  But I've seen it too often that people try to load latex.el
>> in their init files.  And if `TeX-PDF-mode' was set after this
>> happened, testing at load time would fail.  So it is better to do it
>> during mode initialization.  Thanks for reminding me.
>
> Perhaps the default value should be changed to nil then?

It should not make a difference if the default is nil or something
else.  Changing it to nil would simply indicate that it is to be set
somewhere else.  That's probably what you are intending.

> Presumably
> with the current code something would have to be wrong or inconsistent
> now when it does not get set before it is used.

At least before I began fiddling with it, yes.

-- 
Ralf