From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: reftex broken: "symbol's function definition is void: decf" Date: 6 Feb 2007 10:31:18 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1170786678.036400.31840@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> References: <1170693591.434022.67310@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170787242 22404 80.91.229.12 (6 Feb 2007 18:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:40:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 06 19:40:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HEVEz-0000wB-1A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:40:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HEVEy-0005NV-Pp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:40:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 163.244.62.65 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1170786684 17882 127.0.0.1 (6 Feb 2007 18:31:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:31:24 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1170693591.434022.67310@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF1ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=163.244.62.65; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145324 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40930 Archived-At: On Feb 5, 4:39 pm, alma...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > I'm using emacs (21.4.1) and auctex (all from ubuntu edgy) as tex > editor, but somehow, for some tex files reftex is mysteriously broken. > Any reftex action (label, cite, table of contents) gives: "symbol's > function definition is void: decf" in the minibuffer. strange thing is > that it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the tex file, I've > copy pasted the exact same content of the file into a new file and > then it works and then when I change the name of that file to yet > something else it stops working again. Anyone have any idea what may > be going on here? To expand on Kevin's reply. It is common in Elisp to include the CL package only for it's macros, this is done by putting:- (eval-when-compile (require 'cl)) in the file. This means though that CL will only be required at compile time. So to make this file work you must byte-compile it.