Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] TeX-style-path variable misbehaving

[William McCallum]

On Jul 5, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Ralf Angeli wrote:

> * William McCallum (2005-07-05) writes:
>
>
> > On Jul 5, 2005, at 9:14 AM, Ralf Angeli wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Does on your desktop machine the approach with `emacs -Q' I  
> > > mentioned
> > > earlier work?  Maybe this time you might try it without the typo  
> > > I had
> > > in the original version.  The following lines should be correct:
> > >
> > > (setq TeX-style-private '("foo"))
> > > (load "auctex.el" nil t t)
> >
> > Yes, I tried that, without the typo (which I noticed the first time).
> > Same result as before ... TeX-style-path was undefined.
>
> Undefined?  After loading a LaTeX file (that's important) it should at
> least have _some_ value.  Maybe you could add a
>
> (setq debug-on-error t)
>
> to the lines shown above and try again.

Same result ... no errors were reported. The minibuffer shows the  
correct tex-site.el being loaded ("Loading /path/to/tex-site.el  
(source) ... done"). I tried

M-x load-file /path/to/tex-site.el

and still it was not defined. I noticed TeX-style-path is defined in  
tex.el so I tried

M-x load-file /path/to/tex.el

and TeX-style-path was now defined, with the foo in the expected place.

Then I repeated your experiment to find out which TeX-* variables  
were defined after loading tex-site.el: here they are

Possible completions are:
TeX-auto-global               TeX-data-directory
TeX-lisp-directory           TeX-mode-alist
TeX-modes               TeX-style-private

These are all the variables defined in tex-site.el. It seems that  
when I do your emacs -Q thing, none of the autoloads in tex-site.el  
are actually loaded. Well, maybe that's what autoload means? Wait  
until you need it?

> Do you check the value of `TeX-style-path' with `C-h v TeX-style-path
> RET'?

Yes. This gives "no match".

> --
> Ralf