[AUCTeX] Re: a possible bug in auctex 11.84

[Adam Johnson]

> > I defined an AUCTeX command, ReadPDF, to view my pdf using the Windows
> > command "START" as follows:
> >
> > (add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
> >     '("ReadPDF" "start %s.pdf" TeX-run-command t nil))
> >
> > In AUCTeX, the command was translated as:
> >    start "MyTest".pdf
> >
> > However, the START command can only work as:
> >    start MyTest.pdf
> > without the quatation marks.
>
> Great.  Shells used on Unix-like systems can interpret such quotes
> correctly.  A pity cmd.exe is not able to do that.  What you are
> seeing is fallout from the feature allowing people to use file names
> with spaces.

It is nice to use the feature allowing file names with spaces.

> > How can I solve this problem?  Thanks.
>
> We'll have to fix this in AUCTeX.  (I'm not sure if you could use a
> different shell on Windows which is able to cope with such quotes.)

I solved the problem by further reading of the help of the command START:
   START ["title"] [...] [command/program] [parameters]

That is, the following command
   start "MyTest".pdf
will open a new shell window titled as "MyTest.pdf".  That is, the quoted 
string was taken as the new shell window title.

A solution to cope with it can be:
   start "" "MyTest".pdf
which means "" (empty or something else might work) is the window title and 
"MyTest".pdf is the command/program.

I fixed my "ReadPDF" as following
   (add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
       '("ReadPDF" \"\" "start %s.pdf" TeX-run-command t nil))
It works well.

--
Adam

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