bug#21595: 11.88.8; TeX help in Plain contaminated by LaTeX

[Tassilo Horn]

jfbu <address@hidden> writes:

> A guru from the LaTeX3 team tells me it can't be the case,
> thus my question is
>
>    Does the message somehow come from AUCTeX ?
>
> Perhaps no, in which case sorry for the noise.

Yes, the message comes from AUCTeX.  The variable
`TeX-error-description-list' is an alist of regular expressions matched
agains error messages and such explanations about what that error means
and what might cause it.

The same list is used for plain TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt etc. and I don't
think it is reasonable to split it into multiple lists just to have some
explanations a bit more specific.  Well, and you are a TeX-pro anyway,
so I'd recommend you put

  (setq TeX-error-description-list '((".*" . "Go figure!")))

into your ~/.emacs. :-)

Bye,
Tassilo