From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: a minor problem with AUCTEX. Please help. Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:16:37 +0000 Organization: University of Cambridge Message-ID: References: <3fc3ea80-b05a-4607-8c2e-502661b97e60@k22g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263921650 3633 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2010 17:20:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:20:50 +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 Jan 19 18:20:42 2010 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 1NXHkq-00065Z-Td for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:20:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45583 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXHkr-0004Cd-PX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:20:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXHkU-0004CV-22 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:20:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXHkP-0004C5-Hm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:20:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60624 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXHkP-0004C2-Bc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:20:09 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57634) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NXHkO-0005NS-U8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:20:09 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NXHkL-0005qO-Je for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:20:05 +0100 Original-Received: from smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.95.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:20:05 +0100 Original-Received: from sdl.web by smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:20:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ITxJUeaYgY4QgGDtcZlZ8bq4GPQ= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:71309 Archived-At: On 2010-01-18 22:00 +0000, Porky Pig wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using EMACS+AUCTEX under Windows XP for many years, with > MikTeX, so I"m kind of familiar with its behavior. A few days ago > I've downloaded the latest EMACS for Windows (23.1.1) + the latest > AUCTEX. Still Windows XP. Now the problem. I use Latex2E to process > the .tex fils and create the dvi. Now when there is a compilation > error, I press C-c C-` to look the error log. The screen gets split, > the error logs shows up in the lower windows, *but* the upper part is > empty. So I have to go to the buffer list and re-read the .tex file > into the upper window. Then the file shows up, with a cursor pointing > to the possible location of the error, as it should be. > > Now with my old setup I had a similar situation on occasion: when > AUCTEX can't parse the error, so when I press C-c C-` I get the empty > buffer. With my new setup, however, it happens all the time Latex2e > detects the error. > > I wonder whether there's some AUCTEX parameter I can tweak. > > TIA. > > (Note: I run portable MIKTEX, and I install and run EMACS+AUCTEX from > the same USB flash drive. Other than that problem I've described, > everything appears to work just fine, but, of course a bit slow.) There was some fix on this issue. Could you try the AUCTeX devel version from CVS? Leo