Re: Changing LaTeX files extension

* [email protected] (2005-01-21) writes:

> I want to give may LaTeX files the extension .latex instead of the
> actual .tex, I want to caracterize my Plain TeX files.
>
> In my .emacs file I inserted
>
> (setq auto-mode-alist
>        (cons '("\\.latex$" . tex-mode)
>              auto-mode-alist))
>  
> but when I try to compile such a file, I have the following error
[...]
> the extension .tex is added to the name of the file and of course
> the file doesn't exist, and I don't to prevent AUCTeX to add this
> extension.

Compilation should work if you add "latex" to `TeX-file-extensions'.
But briefly testing this I already saw problems with parts of AUCTeX
which rely on the value of `TeX-default-extension', e.g. the master
file mechanisms.  You could probably make it buffer-local and change
its value via `LaTeX-mode-hook' but I haven't tested this.

-- 
Ralf