Re: No TeX-master file recognized in CVS Emacs

[Seweryn Kokot]

Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch> writes:

> I've figured it out by experimenting. The problem was the bottom of
> the file where emacs stores information for parsing. (I don't know the
> exact nomenclature for these %%% lines). The following had worked
> under Emacs 21:
>
> %%% Local Variables: 
> %%% mode: flyspell
> %%% TeX-master: "habil"
> %%% End: 
>
> The second line starts flyspell automatically on loading the file, as
> I once found out. Emacs from CVS on the other hand misses the line 
>
> %%% mode: latex
I have this line in my .tex files

> although LateX is correctly recognized as the major mode). After I
> replaced "flyspell" by "latex" it worked again. 
>
> Thanks for pointing me to Emacs from CVS. It's stable as far as I can
> tell, and it containes many useful new functions.

In fact I switched from 21.4 to Emacs 22 four half a year ago when I
wanted to use msf-abbrev package which only works on Emacs CVS and
didn't have any problems with stability. New features are really worth
of it. Not to mention that Emacs 22 will be released soon.

regards,
Seweryn