Re: [AUCTeX] Invoking dvips with psfrag loaded

[David Kastrup]

Sven Nicklas <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm new to Auctex/Emacs and I'm trying to invoke dvips/gv when using
> the psfrag package. I observed a behaviour of Auctex which seems odd
> to me:
>
> The dvips/gv commands are executed only when I typed
> "\usepackage{psfrag}" during the present session but not when I load
> an existing latex file with "\ usepackage{psfrag}" already in the
> preamble. In this case, xdvi is started. In other words, I always have
> to retype this line in order to start dvips/gv. I don't think that
> this behaviour is intended...
>
> This happens even when I use the default .emacs file

What is "the default .emacs file"?  Maybe you need to turn on document
parsing.

> I'm using Auctex 11.84 with Gnu Emacs 22.2.1 under Ubuntu 9.04.

11.84 is quite outdated.  Not sure whether this would make a difference.

-- 
David Kastrup