Re: About LaTeX/TeX modes

[Tassilo Horn]

Matthias Meulien <orontee@gmail.com> writes:

>> (...) For what it's worth I still think it would be really good if
>> AucTeX was merged into Emacs. Let's avoid the feeling of "when you
>> use Emacs you really should first customize it like this and this and
>> this". When I use Emacs in demos for students I use a plain no-frills
>> Emacs, because I want it to be what they get themselves if they
>> install on their own computers, but I've "had to" make an exception
>> for TeX, because not using AucTeX would be too hard for me.
>>
>
> My experience is the opposite! The legacy mode worked out of the box,
> AucTeX didn't and I faced a huge manual and got lost in tons of
> options and new commands to narrow, comment, compile...

If it doesn't work out-of-the-box with the AUCTeX ELPA package that's a
bug you should report.

Bye,
Tassilo