problem with auctex

problem with auctex

[halo]

All,

I just installed auctex in Windows. And because I uses a portable
MikTex (installed in a USB disk), the PATH doesn't include the
directory that contains the LaTeX executable commands. Is there a way
in Emacs or auctex that can tell auctex where to find the latex
commands? For example, can I setup the PATH variables directly in
Emacs?

Thanks you!

caixj

Re: problem with auctex

[B. T. Raven]

"halo" <xuejun.cai@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1160815903.006626.26780@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
> All,
>
> I just installed auctex in Windows. And because I uses a portable
> MikTex (installed in a USB disk), the PATH doesn't include the
> directory that contains the LaTeX executable commands. Is there a way
> in Emacs or auctex that can tell auctex where to find the latex
> commands? For example, can I setup the PATH variables directly in
> Emacs?
>
> Thanks you!
>
> caixj
>

You could try:
M-! path=%path%;[absolute path on flash disk]

but this is a sub-shell and might not persist through the emacs session.

If you can be sure that the usb drive will always be assigned the same
drive letter then you could add the absolute path to the exec-path list.
See "Customize."

Ed

Re: problem with auctex

[halo]

> >
> > I just installed auctex in Windows. And because I uses a portable
> > MikTex (installed in a USB disk), the PATH doesn't include the
> > directory that contains the LaTeX executable commands. Is there a way
> > in Emacs or auctex that can tell auctex where to find the latex
> > commands? For example, can I setup the PATH variables directly in
> > Emacs?
> >
> > Thanks you!
> >
> > caixj
> >
>
> You could try:
> M-! path=%path%;[absolute path on flash disk]
>
> but this is a sub-shell and might not persist through the emacs session.
>
> If you can be sure that the usb drive will always be assigned the same
> drive letter then you could add the absolute path to the exec-path list.
> See "Customize."
>

The problem is solved. The usb drive letter could be gotten through
'data-directory'. And 'setenv' and 'getenv' could be used in the .emacs
to setup PATH.

best regards,
caixj

Problem with auctex

[me]

Hi all

I've recently updated my emacs to the version 26.0.50.2 (package emacs-
snapshoot for Ubuntu) and since a couple of days, auctex is not 
automatically loaded anymore when I edit LaTeX file (*.tex). Auctex was 
installed from elpa (or melpa I do not remember) and is stored into 
$HOME/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.89.5/. 

If, within emacs, I type M-x load-library <ret> auctex.el and then M-x 
latex-mode, everything is then ok.. Auctex is not required explicitly into 
my .emacs file (as specified into the documentation).

Can you please help me to debug this ? or give me a pointer to a possible 
solution ? Thank you in advance for your help.

Re: Problem with auctex

[Tassilo Horn]

me <me@myself.invalid> writes:

Hi!

> I've recently updated my emacs to the version 26.0.50.2 (package
> emacs- snapshoot for Ubuntu) and since a couple of days, auctex is not
> automatically loaded anymore when I edit LaTeX file (*.tex). Auctex
> was installed from elpa (or melpa I do not remember) and is stored
> into $HOME/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.89.5/.

I myself am using Emacs 26 (from the git master branch), and for me
AUCTeX installed from ELPA works just fine and loads after finding the
first TeX file.  I've tested it just yesterday.

What does C-h f tex-mode RET show you?  Here it shows

,----[ C-h f tex-mode RET ]
| tex-mode is an interactive autoloaded compiled Lisp function in ‘tex-mode.el’.
| 
| (tex-mode)
| 
| Parent mode: ‘text-mode’.
| 
| :override advice: ‘TeX-tex-mode’
| 
| Major mode for editing files of input for TeX, LaTeX, or SliTeX.
| Tries to determine (by looking at the beginning of the file) whether
| this file is for plain TeX, LaTeX, or SliTeX and calls ‘plain-tex-mode’,
| ‘latex-mode’, or ‘slitex-mode’, respectively.  If it cannot be determined,
| such as if there are no commands in the file, the value of ‘tex-default-mode’
| says which mode to use.
`----

Note the :override advice: line which indicates that AUCTeX has been
loaded.

> If, within emacs, I type M-x load-library <ret> auctex.el and then M-x
> latex-mode, everything is then ok.. Auctex is not required explicitly
> into my .emacs file (as specified into the documentation).

That should not be needed.  Do you have any configs wrt. AUCTeX?  If so,
could you show them?

Bye,
Tassilo

Problem with AUCTeX

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi,

I'm having a strange problem.  From time to time while editing LaTeX
source, I see the following traceback:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments (2 . 2) 3)
  jit-lock-force-redisplay(#<buffer tikz3d_test.tex> 1701 1913)
  font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay(#<buffer tikz3d_test.tex> 1701 1913)
  apply(font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay (#<buffer tikz3d_test.tex> 1701 1913))
  byte-code("r\301\b\302H\b\303H\"\210)\301\207" [timer apply 5 6] 4)
  timer-event-handler([t 21265 56149 607969 nil font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay (#<buffer tikz3d_test.tex> 1701 1913) nil 180000])

It happens randomly and I have no idea what is causing it.  It happens
very frequently, and editing LaTeX source is becoming very annoying.
Could someone help me find the problem?

Thanks,

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: Problem with AUCTeX

[Tassilo Horn]

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Suvayu,

> I'm having a strange problem.  From time to time while editing LaTeX
> source, I see the following traceback:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments (2 . 2) 3)
>   jit-lock-force-redisplay(#<buffer tikz3d_test.tex> 1701 1913)
>   font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay(#<buffer tikz3d_test.tex> 1701 1913)
>   apply(font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay (#<buffer tikz3d_test.tex> 1701 1913))
>   byte-code("r\301\b\302H\b\303H\"\210)\301\207" [timer apply 5 6] 4)
>   timer-event-handler([t 21265 56149 607969 nil
> font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay (#<buffer tikz3d_test.tex> 1701 1913) nil
> 180000])

That's already fixed in the development version, and I also released a
new ELPA version (11.87.3) with the corresponding fix.

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: Problem with AUCTeX

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Tassilo,

On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 08:07:38PM +0100, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Hi Suvayu,
> 
> > I'm having a strange problem.  From time to time while editing LaTeX
> > source, I see the following traceback:
> >
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments (2 . 2) 3)
> >   jit-lock-force-redisplay(#<buffer tikz3d_test.tex> 1701 1913)
> >   font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay(#<buffer tikz3d_test.tex> 1701 1913)
> >   apply(font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay (#<buffer tikz3d_test.tex> 1701 1913))
> >   byte-code("r\301\b\302H\b\303H\"\210)\301\207" [timer apply 5 6] 4)
> >   timer-event-handler([t 21265 56149 607969 nil
> > font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay (#<buffer tikz3d_test.tex> 1701 1913) nil
> > 180000])
> 
> That's already fixed in the development version, and I also released a
> new ELPA version (11.87.3) with the corresponding fix.

Could you point me to the fix?  I use AUCTeX from my distribution.  I
cannot update it easily.  If I can point to the fix, maybe I can
convince my distribution to update AUCTeX or include the fix.

Thanks,

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: Problem with AUCTeX

[Tassilo Horn]

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Suvayu,

>> > I'm having a strange problem.  From time to time while editing LaTeX
>> > source, I see the following traceback:
>> >
>> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments (2 . 2) 3)
>> >   jit-lock-force-redisplay(#<buffer tikz3d_test.tex> 1701 1913)
>> >   font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay(#<buffer tikz3d_test.tex> 1701 1913)
>> >   apply(font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay (#<buffer tikz3d_test.tex> 1701 1913))
>> >   byte-code("r\301\b\302H\b\303H\"\210)\301\207" [timer apply 5 6] 4)
>> >   timer-event-handler([t 21265 56149 607969 nil
>> > font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay (#<buffer tikz3d_test.tex> 1701 1913) nil
>> > 180000])
>> 
>> That's already fixed in the development version, and I also released a
>> new ELPA version (11.87.3) with the corresponding fix.
>
> Could you point me to the fix?

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/auctex.git/commit/?id=5b5ef6eeb0468c273a329a05d31b3788fd46b5d7

Bye,
Tassilo

Problem with auctex.

[Steven W. Orr]

Emacs-21.3 and auctex-11.55 under Fedora Core 3.

My problem is that when I go to visit a .tex file I get the following
error:

File mode specification error: (wrong-number-of-arguments #[(face color &optional frame) "\303\b	\304
\206	

Re: Problem with auctex.

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.03.2005 um 15:00 schrieb Steven W. Orr:

> face frame color set-face-attribute :foreground unspecified

*Some* face has been incorrectly customized. You should invoke GNU 
Emacs with '--debug-init', open a TeX file and try to find the face 
with the missing foreground value in *Backtrace* buffer. The buffer too 
might reveal the customization-group. Invoking "M-x customize-group 
<customization-group>" should allow you to set things correct.

--
Greetings

   Pete

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does 
not
want merely because you think it would be good for him. -- Robert 
Heinlein