Re: Loss of auctex functionality

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

Sam Albers wrote:
> Hi!
>>> Until I messed up my site-lisp directory, I
>>> conveniently had a LaTeX drop down menu within
>>> emacs. I didn't really use it that much it did
>>> provide me a list of keystrokes that were useful
>>> when working with a latex document. Now only a TeX
>>> drop down menu appears. I used to be able to run
>>> C-c C-c and then type LaTeX to compile my document.
>>> Now when I do this I am taken to a windows that
>>> looks exactly like my terminal instead of LaTeXing
>>> my document automatically. Other AucTex commands
>>> don't seem to work well either.
>>>
>>> C-c C-e should allow me to insert an environment
>>> but all it does it end the environment I am in
>>> whereas previously I call insert a new environment
>>> of my choice.
>>>
>>> My /usr/share/emacs/22.2/site-lisp directory is
>>> empty through a silly move by yours truly. I am
>>> using Ubuntu 9.04.
>> Looks like you're not using auctex at all but the built-in
>> tex-mode. Why don't you just reinstall the auctex-package via the
>> package manager?
>>
> 
> Thanks Anselm. I tried this earlier but it did not seem to fix the problem.
> Indeed it does seem like emacs is not detecting auctex at all. Not sure how
> to proceed.
> 

But if you did this then your site-lisp subdirectory would no longer be 
empty. You should be able to re-install by downloading tarball or zip here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/download-for-unix.html

Also it seems that if you still have something like the following in 
your .emacs, then that should produce errors because of missing files:

(load "auctex.el" nil t t)
(load "preview-latex.el" nil t t)

(setq TeX-auto-save t)
(setq TeX-parse-self t)
(setq-default TeX-master nil)
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex)
(setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t)

I am on w32 but I think these issues are platform independent.

Ed