"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
The default tex-site.el from the AUC TeX package does a number of
weird things, including consing "@AUCDIR" on the front of load-path.
The AUC TeX Makefile replaces it with the installation directory.
Given that both Emacs and XEmacs these days search directories
recursively, maybe this is no longer needed.
It also duplicates a bunch of autoloads that XEmacs normally does
via
auto-autoloads.el.
Emacs doesn't. Are the XEmacs autoloads package specific? If not,
they can't be autogenerated because of conflicts with the standard TeX
mode.
On the other hand, I can't really dispense with `(require
'tex-site)',
since AUC TeX (properly) IMHO defers to tex-mode.el in the core for
tex-mode and latex-mode.
Historical note: tex-site.el is older than XEmacs (and Lucid Emacs).
Its purpose was to give people a place to add site specific
customizations that that should survive upgrading AUC TeX. For the
same reason, it doesn't install (using the makefile) in the same
directory as the rest of the files.