Re: [O] orgmode and auctex

[Christopher Witte]

OK so using the setq-default inside a hook is probably not a good idea.  But I can reliably reproduce this problem, I'm surprised you couldn't.  If I start emacs using emacs -Q and open an org file everything is fine.  If I then evaluate this

(setq-default TeX-master nil)

(defun org-mode-reftex-setup ()
  (load-library "reftex")
  (and (buffer-file-name)
       (file-exists-p (buffer-file-name))
       (reftex-parse-all))
  (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c )") 'reftex-citation))
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'org-mode-reftex-setup)

and try to open an org file I get prompted "Master file: ~/".  I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 and the emacs-snapshot package: GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.5), latest org pulled from git today.
Is there any more information I could provide to help diagnose this problem?

Cheers
Chris.

On 7 February 2012 19:15, Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:

Christopher Witte <address@hidden> wrote:

> I've had a small problem with orgmode and auctex.  Follwing the auctex quickstart I added the
> following to my .emacs
>
> (setq-default TeX-master nil)
>
> and then from the orgmode FAQ to setup reftex in orgmode I added the following
>
> (defun org-mode-reftex-setup ()
>   (load-library "reftex")
>   (and (buffer-file-name)
>        (file-exists-p (buffer-file-name))
>        (reftex-parse-all))
>   (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c )") 'reftex-citation))
> (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'org-mode-reftex-setup)
>
> With both of these, whenever I opened an org file I was asked to name the master file.  If I comment
> out the setq-default I don't get the behaviour I would like with mulitfile tex files.  My solution
> was to change
>
> (setq-default TeX-master nil)
>
> to
>
> (add-hook 'TeX-mode-hook (lambda ()
>                (setq-default TeX-master nil)))
>
> I then appear to get the behaviour I desire.  Is this a good way to do this?  If so I might add it
> to the FAQ.
>

Probably not. setq-default sets the default value of the variable
whereas the hook is supposed to set the local value in order to override
the default value: setting the default value from a hook seems backwards
to me.

Actually, I added the above code (*without* the TeX-mode-hook mod) to my
minimal .emacs and opening org files does not generate any questions. Are
you sure you have diagnosed the problem correctly?

Nick