Re: Auctex persistent problems not recognizing master file

[Joost Kremers]

On Tue, Apr 06 2021, Ikumi Keita wrote:
> Thanks Al for looking into this issue and checking with Doom Emacs.
>
>>>>>> David Denton <dwsdenton@gmail.com> writes:
>> These are the values I get.
>> TeX-master is a buffer-local variable defined in tex.el.
>> Global Value
>> t
>
>> file-local-variables-alist is a buffer-local variable without a source
>> file.
>> Global Value
>> nil
>
> The latter shows that emacs didn't analysed your Local Variables
> section. In addition, it is very strange to see "without a source
> file." for it. It should be "defined in ‘files.el’." under usual
> circumastances.

It's possible David installed Emacs from a package manager and the Emacs package
comes without source files. (Debian has a separate package containing the Elisp
source files for Emacs, for example.)


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Joost Kremers
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