Re: [AUCTeX-devel] About templates

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden writes:

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to use templates for latex files, so I tried the solution Ralf 
> Angeli 
> proposed some months ago in this mailing list. The problem with it is that 
> loading auctex 11.85 causes (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'auto-insert) to fail, 
> that is, evaluating find-file-hook when the buffer opens shows no sign of 
> auto-insert and no text is added to the buffer. I managed to work around this 
> by using 
>
> (add-hook 'find-file-not-found-functions 'auto-insert)
> (TeX-tex-mode) 
>
> instead, which works so far, yet doesn't look optimal (actually it causes 
> *scratch* to start in latex-mode). Am I the only one with this problem?
>
> By the way, you may count me as a user of the tex-omega mode, although I'm 
> thinking about moving to xetex when it becomes less buggy.

It is my impression that XeTeX is quite less buggy than pretty much
everything that has been released as Omega, though I have not tried it
myself.  LuaTeX, in contrast, is a moving target, albeit a powerful one.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum