From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: TeX called improperly Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:37:04 +0200 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019468412 1740 127.0.0.1 (22 Apr 2002 09:40:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:40:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16zaIu-0000Rx-00 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:40:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zaIs-0000X9-00; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 05:40:10 -0400 Original-Received: from chx400.switch.ch ([130.59.10.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zaFw-0000DR-00 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 05:37:08 -0400 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.4.42]) by chx400.switch.ch with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16zaFv-00061t-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:37:07 +0200 Original-Received: from fbi-news.cs.uni-dortmund.de (fbi-news [129.217.4.45]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g3M9b6b22847 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:37:06 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: (news@localhost) by fbi-news.cs.uni-dortmund.de id g3M9b5e01265; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:37:05 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:G1b4+a75hyJUP28PgcRtaWZLQBs= Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:860 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:860 steve@doodlebeth.com (Steve Throckmorton) writes: > The other problem I had was that emacs was calling tex.exe with the > option string (tex-start-options-string), which I set within > buffer with the Local Variables feature, in quotes (""). This caused > the options to be ignored by TeX. I discovered that the function > tex-start-tex was running tex-start-options-string through some > function called shell-quote-argument, which caused the quotes to > appear in the command line. I deleted the call to > shell-quote-argument, and that seemed to fix things for me. Maybe it would be useful to have a variable tex-start-options-list or similar which contained a list of strings. Then you could have put your various options in there. Thoughts? kai -- Silence is foo!