On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:14 AM, B. T. Raven <nihil@nihilo.net> wrote:

> 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
>
> Thank you for your help.

I seem to have a few too many emacs directories:

/usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp
which has ess and auctex files in it

/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
which also has ess and auctex files in it

/usr/share/emacs/22.2/site-lisp
which is an empty folder.

The weird thing is that ESS is still working fine while auctex seems to not
be.

Lastly, a newbie question. Is the .emacs file just a text file located in
your home directory and does emacs look for it automatically there. That
probably should be a new thread but it is pertinent to my issue.

Thanks alot for your help.

Sam