Re: [AUCTeX] Re: Trouble with Find Documentation
Alan Ristow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the info. Perhaps I'll experiment more with XEmacs once I > get everything working properly in Emacs, as I'd prefer to use > XEmacs in the long run. For now, I'll just forget about it. The TeX-doc stuff apparently works only with CVS Emacs in 11.83 (probably reason to release something new soon). Generally, new features get most testing with that platform. Emacs 21.4 is next likely to work reasonable, XEmacs least. The case where something is completely borked (for which I would not assign blame always to XEmacs itself: it is partly just that most of AUCTeX developers are Emacs-centric) certainly tends to happen a lot more with XEmacs. It already helps deinstalling any AUCTeX from the Sumo tarball and installing the XEmacs package we provide for download on the download area of AUCTeX. But if AUCTeX is your main application, it could really be a good idea to switch to CVS Emacs. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum ___ auctex mailing list auctex@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
[AUCTeX] Re: Trouble with Find Documentation
* Alan Ristow (2006-06-28) writes:
> Ralf Angeli wrote:
>>
>> What appears if you copy the lines
>>
>> (when (executable-find "texdoc")
>> (TeX-search-files nil '("dvi" "pdf" "ps" "txt" "html") t t))
>>
>> into the *scratch* buffer, place the cursor behind the last
>> parenthesis and type `C-j'?
>
> ("test" "campanile" "beamericonbook" "beamericonbook.20"
> "beamericonarticle" "beamericonarticle.20" "beamer-icsi-logo"
> "powerdot-default")
>
> It appears to be searching more than one directory, as I don't have a
> directory that contains exactly this set of files. However, my TeX tree
> obviously contains a lot more than eight files of the types listed in
> your command. None of them, with the possible exception of "test",
> appears to be related to anything I've opened since installing Emacs.
I just had a quick look and the problem appears to be the alternate
search which is being used if kpathsea-based search is not available.
That's the case with MikTeX for example. The alternate search,
however, searches below the various TeX roots in the "tex"
subdirectory whereas all the documentation is below the "doc"
subdirectory. I'll try to fix this ...
> Thanks for the info. Perhaps I'll experiment more with XEmacs once I get
> everything working properly in Emacs, as I'd prefer to use XEmacs in the
> long run. For now, I'll just forget about it.
In case AUCTeX is one of your main applications you should probably
have a look at the section about bugs in the AUCTeX manual. There are
some specific to XEmacs because of its dated code base.
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[AUCTeX] Re: Trouble with Find Documentation
Ralf Angeli wrote:
* Alan Ristow (2006-06-27) writes:
The one problem I'm having with both right now is the Find Documentation
command. When I run it from Emacs, it prompts me for a command or
package name. I've tried typing a number of packages that I know are
installed on my system -- memoir, textcomp, etc. -- but it always
responds with "Documentation not found." I've checked the value of
TeX-Macro-Global and it contains the proper paths to my TeX installation.
What appears if you copy the lines
(when (executable-find "texdoc")
(TeX-search-files nil '("dvi" "pdf" "ps" "txt" "html") t t))
into the *scratch* buffer, place the cursor behind the last
parenthesis and type `C-j'?
("test" "campanile" "beamericonbook" "beamericonbook.20"
"beamericonarticle" "beamericonarticle.20" "beamer-icsi-logo"
"powerdot-default")
It appears to be searching more than one directory, as I don't have a
directory that contains exactly this set of files. However, my TeX tree
obviously contains a lot more than eight files of the types listed in
your command. None of them, with the possible exception of "test",
appears to be related to anything I've opened since installing Emacs.
When I run it from XEmacs, I get an error reading "Autoloading failed to
define function Info-find-file." After a little googling, I get the
impression that this particular feature is broken under XEmacs for the
moment. Is that correct?
Yes. The situation with the CVS version of AUCTeX is a bit better.
It does not throw an error, but getting documentation of LaTeX
commands from latex.info does not and probably will not work with
XEmacs and Emacs 21. Getting documentation via texdoc should work in
all Emacs and XEmacs versions, however.
Thanks for the info. Perhaps I'll experiment more with XEmacs once I get
everything working properly in Emacs, as I'd prefer to use XEmacs in the
long run. For now, I'll just forget about it.
Alan
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Re: [AUCTeX] Trouble with Find Documentation
* Alan Ristow (2006-06-27) writes:
> The one problem I'm having with both right now is the Find Documentation
> command. When I run it from Emacs, it prompts me for a command or
> package name. I've tried typing a number of packages that I know are
> installed on my system -- memoir, textcomp, etc. -- but it always
> responds with "Documentation not found." I've checked the value of
> TeX-Macro-Global and it contains the proper paths to my TeX installation.
What appears if you copy the lines
(when (executable-find "texdoc")
(TeX-search-files nil '("dvi" "pdf" "ps" "txt" "html") t t))
into the *scratch* buffer, place the cursor behind the last
parenthesis and type `C-j'?
> When I run it from XEmacs, I get an error reading "Autoloading failed to
> define function Info-find-file." After a little googling, I get the
> impression that this particular feature is broken under XEmacs for the
> moment. Is that correct?
Yes. The situation with the CVS version of AUCTeX is a bit better.
It does not throw an error, but getting documentation of LaTeX
commands from latex.info does not and probably will not work with
XEmacs and Emacs 21. Getting documentation via texdoc should work in
all Emacs and XEmacs versions, however.
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Re: [AUCTeX] New version of Emacs/AUCTeX bundle for Windows available
* David Kastrup (2006-06-26) writes: > What you can find on alpha.gnu.org from the download page of AUCTeX is > a snapshot of the current development of both Emacs and AUCTeX (though > the latest snapshot might indeed have AUCTeX 11.83 as released, but > that is not the rule). Actually it is. I've never included a snapshot of AUCTeX, only released versions. -- Ralf ___ auctex mailing list auctex@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
[AUCTeX] Trouble with Find Documentation
I'm giving AUCTeX a try on my WinXP box. Currently I have installed both the Emacs/AUCTeX precompiled bundle and XEmacs 21.4.19 with AUCTeX installed from the pre-compiled ready-for-XEmacs download from the AUCTeX web site. Both Emacs and XEmacs are the native versions -- no Cygwin here. It's been a bumpy start, but both are now nominally working. The one problem I'm having with both right now is the Find Documentation command. When I run it from Emacs, it prompts me for a command or package name. I've tried typing a number of packages that I know are installed on my system -- memoir, textcomp, etc. -- but it always responds with "Documentation not found." I've checked the value of TeX-Macro-Global and it contains the proper paths to my TeX installation. When I run it from XEmacs, I get an error reading "Autoloading failed to define function Info-find-file." After a little googling, I get the impression that this particular feature is broken under XEmacs for the moment. Is that correct? Could someone please shed some light on these problems? A similar command in WinEdt is a very important part of my workflow, so I am loathe to live without it. I'm not an Emacs newbie, but I'm not terribly experienced with it either, so please let me know if there's something else I need to set or check. Thanks! Alan ___ auctex mailing list auctex@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
