In a running emacs editor, if I am opening a .tex file out of the editor, the menus "LaTeX", "Command", "Math" and "Ref" are empty. That is, upon clicking on them, there is no dropdown list:
If, however, I open a .tex file from the console by invoking emacs
$ emacs file.tex
the menus show up like a charm.
My .emacs:
(custom-set-variables
'(inhibit-startup-screen t))
;; Auctex
(load "auctex.el" nil t t)
(load "preview-latex.el" nil t t)
(setq TeX-parse-self t) ; Enable parse on load
(setq TeX-auto-save t) ; Enable parse on save -> auto subdir
(setq-default TeX-master nil) ; Query for master file.
(setq TeX-PDF-mode t) ;; set pdflatex default, not latex
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'LaTeX-math-mode) ;; set math mode
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex)
(setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t)
I am running arch linux 2.6.31 x86_64, emacs 23.1-3, auctex 11.85-2
