From: Stephen Berman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Thalis Charakas <thales1@protonmail.com>, 73854@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73854: 29.4; tex-mode: unexpected and inconsistent behaviour of `tex-compile`, `tex-file`, and `tex-view`
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:31:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ldykxrba.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ed4cl8no.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 19 Oct 2024 12:54:51 +0300")
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On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 12:54:51 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:36:19 +0000
>> From: Thalis Charakas via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>
>> Basically, `tex-view` works, opening Evince, on a compiled .pdf only
>> after a .dvi is created.
>>
>> Running 'emacs -Q' I evaluate the following in the scratch buffer, to
>> make it so that latex is compiled to pdf:
>> ```
>> (setq tex-print-file-extension ".pdf"
>> tex-dvi-view-command "evince"
>> tex-dvi-print-command "lpr")
>> ```
>> the last two lines are following the instructions on the description of
>> `tex-print-file-extension`.
>>
>> I navigate to a simple .tex in an empty directory and press `C-c C-c`
>> which is bound by default to `tex-compile`, I press enter, as the
>> default is `pdflatex`, and the file compiles, creating a .pdf in the
>> directory. After that I press `C-c C-v`, which is bound to `tex-view`
>> but Evince does not open, instead I get the message "tex-print: No
>> appropriate ‘.dvi’ file could be found. If I press `C-c C-f`
>> (`tex-file`) after that, a .dvi file is created, and now `tex-view`
>> works, meaning it opens the .pdf with Evince.
>>
>> The fact that `tex-view` works on the .pdf only when a .dvi is first
>> created seems like a bug.
>
> Thanks. Can you step with Edebug through tex-print in your case and
> try to figure out what happens there that causes the error message?
> There's some logic there which is supposed to verify that the current
> buffer's print file is up-to-date:
>
> (if (and (not (equal (current-buffer) tex-last-buffer-texed))
> (buffer-file-name)
> ;; Check that this buffer's printed file is up to date.
> (file-newer-than-file-p
> (setq test-name (tex-append (buffer-file-name)
> tex-print-file-extension))
> (buffer-file-name)))
> (setq print-file-name-dvi test-name))
>
> Maybe something goes wrong there in your case?
I debugged this and the problem is that tex-print expects the variable
tex-print-file to be set, but (as its doc string says) it is set by
tex-region, tex-buffer and tex-file, which are all not commands run by
tex-compile, which is meant to run external programs (listed by
tex-compile-commands). A simple fix is the following patch:
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diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el b/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el
index 6fc49800018..acb5bb4b860 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el
@@ -2530,6 +2530,7 @@ tex-compile
(if (tex-shell-running)
(tex-kill-job)
(tex-start-shell))
+ (setq tex-print-file (expand-file-name (tex-main-file)))
(tex-send-tex-command cmd dir))))
(defun tex-start-tex (command file &optional dir)
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But I'm not familiar with the tex-mode.el code and don't know if this
change might have unwanted consequences (though it seems prima facie
safe).
Steve Berman
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2024-10-17 18:36 bug#73854: 29.4; tex-mode: unexpected and inconsistent behaviour of `tex-compile`, `tex-file`, and `tex-view` Thalis Charakas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-19 9:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-19 11:31 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-10-19 11:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-19 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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