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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding command to TeX-command-list
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:37:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lj64wxit.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fwwceq0s.fsf@online.de

henry atting <nsmp_02@online.de> writes:

> What's wrong with this:
>
> (eval-after-load "tex"
> 	'(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
> 	 '("XeLaTeX" "%`xelatex%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil t))
>
> When adding it to ~/.emacs Emacs starts with an error message.
> Then again I can evaluate it with `C-x C-e' when Emacs is up easily.

That is because C-x C-e matches to the corresponding opening brace (that
for add-to-list) and never gets to see eval-after-load, whereas when
reading ~/.emacs, Emacs reads all of the above and does not find a
matching brace for eval-after-load.

-- 
David Kastrup


      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-11 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-11 14:57 Adding command to TeX-command-list henry atting
2010-10-11 15:37 ` David Kastrup [this message]

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