Re: [AUCTeX] help with auctex

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

jfbu writes:

> Le 17/10/2016 à 16:39, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo a écrit :
> > Hi, François.   François Patte writes:
> >
> > > 1- How does emacs know the new path to auctex-11.89.5 as 
> > > nothing has changed in my .emacs file ((add-to-list 'load-path 
> > > "~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.88.6") is still there but emacs 
> > > uses now: ~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.89.5/)
> >
> > Probably package-initialize is called in your init file after 
> > that add-to-list. If you do not a call to package-initialize in 
> > your init file, it gets added to it automatically by 
> > package.el.
>
> Just a side note: I find this a bit bad, because in my case I 
> have an .emacs which is used as a dispatch depending on the 
> version of Emacs in use. Hence the forcefully added 
> package-initialize needed to be manually corrected for use only 
> in the correct branches.

If the first line of your .emacs is the call to package-initialize 
commented out:

;(package-initialize)

then package.el doesn't try to add that line again.

--
Jorge.