Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.85; Biblatex vs. RefTex

[Andreas Breitbach]

Am Dienstag, den 23.06.2009, 01:10 +0200 schrieb Andreas Breitbach:
> Am Sonntag, den 21.06.2009, 16:49 +0200 schrieb Ralf Angeli:
> > * Andreas Breitbach (2009-06-19) writes:
> > 
> > > Finally I had time to re-check on the installation status of the CVS.
> > > Indeed there have been some errors during installation(resulting in the 
> > > non-application of the CVS version for Emacs), so I did give
> > > it a second try. But now enabling Reftex (via M-x reftex-mode <RET>)
> > > only gives an error, which I can't directly quote here(the text turns
> > > to garbage as it seems to be interepreted as some Unicode-like
> > > characters), so I attachted the saved buffer it came up in.
> > > Hope that helps.
> > >
> > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable reftex-ref-style-alist)
> > >   byte-code([...])
> > >   require(reftex-base)
> > >   byte-code([...])
> > 
> > This could be due to an old reftex-vars.el shadowing the new one.  Which
> > would mean that the installation was unsuccessful.  What's the output of
> > `M-x list-load-path-shadows <RET>' with respect to the RefTeX files?
> > 
> 
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/reftex/reftex-index
> hides /usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/textmodes/reftex-index
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/reftex/reftex-sel
> hides /usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/textmodes/reftex-sel
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/reftex/reftex-toc
> hides /usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/textmodes/reftex-toc
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/reftex/reftex-dcr
> hides /usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/textmodes/reftex-dcr
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/reftex/reftex-global
> hides /usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/textmodes/reftex-global
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/reftex/reftex-cite
> hides /usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/textmodes/reftex-cite
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/reftex/reftex-auc
> hides /usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/textmodes/reftex-auc
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/reftex/reftex
> hides /usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/textmodes/reftex
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/reftex/reftex-ref
> hides /usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/textmodes/reftex-ref
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/reftex/reftex-parse
> hides /usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/textmodes/reftex-parse
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/reftex/reftex-vars
> hides /usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/textmodes/reftex-vars
> 
> The files seem to be some leftovers of my former AUCTeX-install(once
> upon a time I used the TeXLive distributed by Ubuntu, and AUCTeX must
> have been installed automatically.), the reftex.elc says "Compiled by
> address@hidden on Fri Sep  5 21:27:46 2008" in the first lines.
> Upon moving them to a directory in my ~, the complaints are gone.
> Setting up the Makefile with the above mentioned directory turns out
> "2009-04-29" on "C-h v reftex-version <RET>".
> 
> But on C-c [ the result stays the same: It's not working. The backtrace
> gives out the following:
> "Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range 21 37)
>   replace-match("[32]" t t #("\\footcite[]{masala_kenneth_2005}" 0 12
> nil 12 31 (face font-lock-constant-face) 31 32 nil))
>   reftex-do-citation(nil nil nil)\\Clicking here browses to L658 in
> reftex-cite.el, which starts with "(defun reftex-do-citation..."
>   reftex-citation()\\Clicking here browses to L620 in reftex-cite.el,
> which starts with "(defun reftex-citation..."
>   call-interactively(reftex-citation)"
> 
> Upon composing a minimal example file(and thus shortening the original,
> more voluminous document) and concurrently rechecking for my error, it
> suddenly inserted something, but it's distorted:
> \footcite{Internati[3]mmer.2000} where there should have been
> \footcite[3]{InternationalSecurity.1Summer.2000}. And there's yet some
> more strange behavior: If I try to insert a book, the original error
> comes back.
> 
> A remark about the source of the files may be interesting: The MA.bib
> contains references I collected using Zotero(zotero.org), while
> Theorie-Texte.bib was composed using JabRef(as it also states).
> 
> So far, this is my research into the X-Files of RefTex. And I do barely
> understand some of it.