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In LaTeX mode, when I type \" (to produce a Umlaut like ö, ä or ü in the resulting PDF) emacs replaces it by ''\` (two single quotation marks, a backslash, and a backtick) which does not work for typesetting Umlaute. There is a related question here. However I want to turn off this replacing under all circumstances, so that pressing " always inserts a literal " for all languages and not two single ' or anything else.

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  • It does not happen here: I can say Here is some "quoted material" and the quotes will be replaced by double backticks on the left and double ticks (single quotes) on the right, but if I say Here is an \"umlauted letter, it is left as is. Processing it through pdflatex shows the expected. Do you have some yasnippet or some abbrev-like mechanism operating? You might want to try with emacs -q -l minimal.el where minimal.el just loads AucTeX without the rest of your configuration. If that works as expected, bisect your init file to find the culprit.
    – NickD
    Aug 5 at 15:03
  • On a completely different level, you might want to investigate using a Unicode-capable version of LaTeX (XeLaTeX or LuaLaTex) and avoid the problem.
    – NickD
    Aug 5 at 15:06
  • Can the accepted answer of emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/3546/… solve your problem?
    – Name
    Aug 5 at 15:37
  • @NickD - You can process German umlaut also with pdflatex, try for example \documentclass{article} \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \begin{document} foo föö \end{document}. Just make sure you save the .tex file in UTF-8. No need for XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.
    – Arash Esbati
    Aug 5 at 15:51
  • @ArashEsbati I know, but there are many limitations. If you use Unicode text (as most of us do nowadays?), you owe it to yourself to try one of the others.
    – NickD
    Aug 5 at 15:59

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You can try setting the following variables, which are defined in tex.el.

(setq TeX-open-quote "\""
      TeX-close-quote "\"")

This allows me to enter " literally with LaTeX-mode.

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  • this did not work for me. I still have the same issue.
    – M0M0
    Aug 5 at 14:41
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    Are you using some autopairing packages like smartparens? You can try disabling them if yes. You can also check what the " key is bound to in LaTeX-mode. That is how I identified the variables to customize.
    – Swarnendu Biswas
    Aug 5 at 14:54

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