Re: won't load TeX/LaTeX files

[Pascal Bourguignon]

bev <fbe2@comcast.net> writes:

> Hi gang,
>
> I just got emacs 22.2.1 (behind the curve, I know) and I experiencing
> the usual breaking-in problems. Here's an annoying one I can't figure
> out.
>
> I'm running SUSE 10.2 on a toshiba satellite, i686.
>
> Symptom: when I try to load one of my latex files (made with the
> previous emacs version) I get this error msg: "Wrong type argument:
> stringp nil".  When I look in the *Messages* buffer for more info, it
> says: "vc-file-clearprops: Wrong type argument: stringp nil".

This vc-file-clearprops is an old version that doesn't work anymore.
Locate it and remove it.

> I tried to get clever and create a non-latex file and then change it
> to latex and it told me that I didn't have a "latexenc" file.

This latex is old too.  Try to get a new latex that knows that
latexenc is built in.

>  So I searched for latexenc, found that it helps latex deal with
> different encodings, and that 22.2 has latexenc functions built-in. So
> I think I may be getting somewhere, but, having spend a bunch of time
> on this already, I thought I'd ask the good people here whether anyone
> knows wtf is going on? I'm writing a dissertation and it would help if
> I could work on it.

Perhaps it would be prudent to stay more away from the bleeding edge?
Try to go back to 22.1 or 21.3 and wait for the emacs developer to
update all the packages you need for 22.2.1 (of course, this will be
completed when emacs 23.3 will be the bleeding edge).

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__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/

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