AUCtex & Errors while compiling

AUCtex & Errors while compiling

[Claudius Hubig]

Hello,

I'm happily using emacs together with AUCtex (at least I believe so,
I'm quite new to emacs, but it says "PDFLaTex" in the status line).

Compiling also works fine, but when it encounters an error, it tells
me to press C-c `. Being on a German keyboard with deadkeys enabled,
I first press C-c, then Shift-' (key left of backspace) and then
space. It then asks me for a master file:

Master file: (default this file) ~/Desktop/TeX Live 2009/

But since I have none, I just press enter. Navigating to the file I'm
trying to compile (~Desktop/mfp-1.tex) leads to the same results as
just hitting enter.

I then get a vertically divided screen, with a *TeX help* tab on the
right hand which shows me some information about the error and an
empty tab called "Debian" on the left hand.

Is there now any way to
a) get my original file automatically into the buffer on the left and
b) get "links" from the "faulty" lines mentioned on the right to the
corresponding lines on the left?

Please note that I'm using emacs in text mode on Debian testing.
Information about the installed versions, my .emacs and `ls -l
~/.emacs.d/` is appended below.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read (and maybe respond)! :)

Best regards,

Claudius

-- .emacs --
;Add my path
(setq load-path (append load-path (list "/home/claudius/.emacs.d")))

; Some keybindings
(global-font-lock-mode t)
(global-set-key "\C-xs" 'save-buffer)
(global-set-key "\C-xv" 'quoted-insert)
(global-set-key "\C-xg" 'goto-line)
(global-set-key "\C-xf" 'search-forward)
(global-set-key "\C-cc" 'compile)
(global-set-key "\C-xt" 'text-mode);
(global-set-key "\C-xr" 'replace-string);
(global-set-key "\C-xa" 'repeat-complex-command);
(global-set-key "\C-xm" 'manual-entry);
(global-set-key "\C-xw" 'what-line);
(global-set-key "\C-x\C-u" 'shell);
(global-set-key "\C-x\C-r" 'toggle-read-only);
(global-set-key "\C-t" 'kill-word);
(global-set-key "\C-p" 'previous-line);
(global-set-key "\C-u" 'backward-word);
(global-set-key "\C-o" 'forward-word);
(global-set-key "\C-h" 'backward-delete-char-untabify);
(global-set-key "\C-x\C-m" 'not-modified);
(global-set-key "\C-e" 'hippie-expand)
(global-set-key "\C-ce" 'fixup-whitespace)
(global-set-key "\C-k" 'kill-whole-line)

;Default mode/standard stuff
(setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)
(setq mode-require-final-newline t)
(menu-bar-mode -1) ;Disable menu bar
(setq inhibit-startup-message t) ;Disable startup message
(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p) ;Disable annoying yes/no
(setq current-fill-column 160)
;; Backup control
(defun my-backup-file-name (fpath)
  "Return a new file path of a given file path.
If the new path's directories does not exist, create them."
  (let (backup-root bpath)
    (setq backup-root "~/.emacs.d/emacs-backup")
    (setq bpath (concat backup-root fpath "~"))
    (make-directory (file-name-directory bpath) bpath)
    bpath
  )
)
(setq make-backup-file-name-function 'my-backup-file-name)

(defvar autosave-dir
 (concat "/tmp/emacs_autosaves/" (user-login-name) "/"))

(make-directory autosave-dir t)

(defun auto-save-file-name-p (filename)
  (string-match "^#.*#$" (file-name-nondirectory filename)))

(defun make-auto-save-file-name ()
  (concat autosave-dir
   (if buffer-file-name
      (concat "#" (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name) "#")
    (expand-file-name
     (concat "#%" (buffer-name) "#")))))

;Show me where I am
(global-linum-mode 1)
(column-number-mode 1)
(setq linum-format "%d ")

;Brackets
(setq show-paren-delay 0 
      show-paren-style 'parenthesis) 
(show-paren-mode 1)

(global-set-key "%" 'match-paren)
(defun match-paren (arg)
  "Go to the matching parenthesis if on parenthesis otherwise insert %."
  (interactive "p")
  (cond ((looking-at "\\s\(") (forward-list 1) (backward-char 1))
        ((looking-at "\\s\)") (forward-char 1) (backward-list 1))
        (t (self-insert-command (or arg 1)))))

;Fix for color-theme-select
(defun color-theme-face-attr-construct (face frame)
  (if (atom face)
      (custom-face-attributes-get face frame)
    (if (and (consp face) (eq (car face) 'quote))
	(custom-face-attributes-get (cadr face) frame)
      (custom-face-attributes-get (car face) frame))))

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(setq tab-stop-list (quote (4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 68 72 76 80 84 88 92 96 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140 144 148 152 156 160 164 168 172 176 180 184 188 192 196 200 204 208 212 216 220 224 228 232 236 240 244 248 252)))
(setq tab-always-indent t)
(setq tab-width 4)

;LaTeX-mode
(setq-default TeX-master nil);
(setq TeX-PDF-mode t)
(setq TeX-output-view-style (quote (("^dvi$" ("^landscape$"
"^pstricks$\\|^pst-\\|^psfrag$") "%(o?)dvips -t landscape %d -o && gv
%f") ("^dvi$" "^pstricks$\\|^pst-\\|^psfrag$" "%(o?)dvips %d -o && gv
%f") ("^dvi$" ("^\\(?:a4\\(?:dutch\\|paper\\|wide\\)\\|sem-a4\\)$"
"^landscape$") "%(o?)xdvi %dS -paper a4r -s 0 %d") ("^dvi$"
"^\\(?:a4\\(?:dutch\\|paper\\|wide\\)\\|sem-a4\\)$" "%(o?)xdvi %dS
-paper a4 %d") ("^dvi$" ("^\\(?:a5\\(?:comb\\|paper\\)\\)$"
"^landscape$") "%(o?)xdvi %dS -paper a5r -s 0 %d") ("^dvi$"
"^\\(?:a5\\(?:comb\\|paper\\)\\)$" "%(o?)xdvi %dS -paper a5 %d")
("^dvi$" "^b5paper$" "%(o?)xdvi %dS -paper b5 %d") ("^dvi$"
"^letterpaper$" "%(o?)xdvi %dS -paper us %d") ("^dvi$" "^legalpaper$"
"%(o?)xdvi %dS -paper legal %d") ("^dvi$" "^executivepaper$"
"%(o?)xdvi %dS -paper 7.25x10.5in %d") ("^dvi$" "." "%(o?)xdvi %dS
%d") ("^pdf$" "." "evince %o %(outpage)") ("^html?$" "." "netscape
%o"))))

;C/C++
(defvaralias 'c-basic-offset 'tab-width)
(setq c-basic-offset 4)
(setq c-report-syntactic-errors t)
(setq c-syntactic-indentation t)
(setq c-tab-always-indent nil)
(setq c-backspace-function 'backward-delete-char)
(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(tab-always-indent nil))
(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 )

;; HTML
(setq html-helper-build-new-buffer nil)

-- `ls -l ~/.emacs.d/` -- 
drwx------ 2 claudius claudius  4096 16. Apr 20:17 auto-save-list
-rw-r--r-- 1 claudius claudius 17717  1. Mär 20:39 doremi-cmd.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 claudius claudius 25956  1. Mär 20:46 doremi.el
drwxr-xr-x 3 claudius claudius  4096  6. Apr 23:30 emacs-backup
-rw-r--r-- 1 claudius claudius  5567  1. Mär 20:46 ring+.el

-- dpkg -l | grep emacs --
ii  emacs-goodies-el                      31.5                         Miscellaneous add-ons for Emacs
ii  emacs23-bin-common                    23.1+1-5                     The GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture dependent files
ii  emacs23-common                        23.1+1-5                     The GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture independent infra
ii  emacs23-common-non-dfsg               23.1+1-1                     GNU Emacs shared, architecture independent, non-DFSG items
ii  emacs23-nox                           23.1+1-5                     The GNU Emacs editor (without X support)
ii  emacsen-common                        1.4.19                       Common facilities for all emacsen
ii  html-helper-mode                      3.0.4kilo-2                  A popular HTML editing mode for emacs

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Re: AUCtex & Errors while compiling

[Andreas Politz]

Claudius Hubig <claudiushubig@arcor.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm happily using emacs together with AUCtex (at least I believe so,
> I'm quite new to emacs, but it says "PDFLaTex" in the status line).
>
> Compiling also works fine, but when it encounters an error, it tells
> me to press C-c `. Being on a German keyboard with deadkeys enabled,
> I first press C-c, then Shift-' (key left of backspace) and then
> space. It then asks me for a master file:
>

M-g n
also works.

> Master file: (default this file) ~/Desktop/TeX Live 2009/
>
> But since I have none, I just press enter. Navigating to the file I'm
> trying to compile (~Desktop/mfp-1.tex) leads to the same results as
> just hitting enter.
>
> I then get a vertically divided screen, with a *TeX help* tab on the
> right hand which shows me some information about the error and an
> empty tab called "Debian" on the left hand.
>

`tabs' are termed windows in emacs-speak.

> Is there now any way to
> a) get my original file automatically into the buffer on the left and
> b) get "links" from the "faulty" lines mentioned on the right to the
> corresponding lines on the left?
>

This sounds like what actually should happen.


[...]
> ;LaTeX-mode
> (setq-default TeX-master nil);
[...]

Try to change `nil' with `t', and see if it helps (Needs restart), or

M-: (setq TeX-master t) RET

in the latex buffer.

-ap

Re: AUCtex & Errors while compiling

[Claudius Hubig]

Hello Andreas,

Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> wrote:
>Claudius Hubig <claudiushubig@arcor.de> writes:
>> Compiling also works fine, but when it encounters an error, it tells
>> me to press C-c `. Being on a German keyboard with deadkeys enabled,
>> I first press C-c, then Shift-' (key left of backspace) and then
>> space. It then asks me for a master file:
>M-g n
>also works.

Thank you :)

>> Is there now any way to
>> a) get my original file automatically into the buffer on the left and
>> b) get "links" from the "faulty" lines mentioned on the right to the
>> corresponding lines on the left?
>This sounds like what actually should happen.
>> (setq-default TeX-master nil);
>Try to change `nil' with `t', and see if it helps (Needs restart), or

Thank you again. Now at least the first part is done – though there's
no “nice” linking between the errors and the lines yet, as possible
with C++ & 'compile, where I get a window with a list of errors which
are coloured and underlined and when I press RET on one of these, it
takes me to the appropriate line in the source file.

Is this possible with TeX or should I take what I get and be happy? :)

Best regards,

Claudius
-- 
Dignity is like a flag.  It flaps in a storm.
		-- Roy Mengot

http://chubig.net/

Re: AUCtex & Errors while compiling

[Andreas Politz]

Claudius Hubig <claudiushubig@arcor.de> writes:

> Hello Andreas,
>
> Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> wrote:
>>Claudius Hubig <claudiushubig@arcor.de> writes:
>>> Compiling also works fine, but when it encounters an error, it tells
>>> me to press C-c `. Being on a German keyboard with deadkeys enabled,
>>> I first press C-c, then Shift-' (key left of backspace) and then
>>> space. It then asks me for a master file:
>>M-g n
>>also works.
>
> Thank you :)
>
>>> Is there now any way to
>>> a) get my original file automatically into the buffer on the left and
>>> b) get "links" from the "faulty" lines mentioned on the right to the
>>> corresponding lines on the left?
>>This sounds like what actually should happen.
>>> (setq-default TeX-master nil);
>>Try to change `nil' with `t', and see if it helps (Needs restart), or
>
> Thank you again. Now at least the first part is done – though there's
> no “nice” linking between the errors and the lines yet, as possible
> with C++ & 'compile, where I get a window with a list of errors which
> are coloured and underlined and when I press RET on one of these, it
> takes me to the appropriate line in the source file.
>
> Is this possible with TeX or should I take what I get and be happy? :)

Yes, the `linking'. AUCtex does not play by the rules in this case and
uses it's own display-error-foo.

-ap
>
> Best regards,
>
> Claudius

Re: AUCtex & Errors while compiling

[Ralf Angeli]

* Claudius Hubig (2010-04-16) writes:

> Compiling also works fine, but when it encounters an error, it tells
> me to press C-c `. Being on a German keyboard with deadkeys enabled,
> I first press C-c, then Shift-' (key left of backspace) and then
> space. It then asks me for a master file:
>
> Master file: (default this file) ~/Desktop/TeX Live 2009/

This is due to a bug where AUCTeX gets confused when parsing the LaTeX
output.  Try to upgrade to a more recent version of AUCTeX and if that
does not help, activate file:line:error messages for LaTeX.

-- 
Ralf

Re: AUCtex & Errors while compiling

[Ralf Angeli]

* Andreas Politz (2010-04-17) writes:

> Claudius Hubig <claudiushubig@arcor.de> writes:
>
>> Thank you again. Now at least the first part is done – though there's
>> no “nice” linking between the errors and the lines yet, as possible
>> with C++ & 'compile, where I get a window with a list of errors which
>> are coloured and underlined and when I press RET on one of these, it
>> takes me to the appropriate line in the source file.
>>
>> Is this possible with TeX or should I take what I get and be happy? :)
>
> Yes, the `linking'. AUCtex does not play by the rules in this case and
> uses it's own display-error-foo.

It looks as if you are not aware that file:line:error messages are not
available on older TeX systems.

-- 
Ralf