Re: Biber: void-variable TeX-command-list error

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> writes:
>
>> I'm trying to get biber working with TeXLive2011, with Debian Squeeze. I
>> pasted the material in the biber manual into my ~/.elisp file, but
>> encountered this error when I reloaded .emacs:
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable TeX-command-list)
>>   add-to-list(TeX-command-list ("Biber" "biber %s" TeX-run-Biber nil t
>>     :help "Run Biber")) 
>>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*<2>> nil "/home/haines/.emacs" nil t)  ;
>>     Reading at buffer position 18387 
>>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/haines/.emacs" "/home/haines/.emacs"
>>     nil nil) 
>>   load("~/.emacs")
>>   reload()
>>
>> Since I've no clue, I've appended the pasted lines. I had assumed that
>> all I had to do was paste these lines from the biber manual and reload
>> to gain access to the C-c C-c biber command.
>>
>
> Why is the following not wrapped in
>
> (eval-after-load  "tex" '(add-to-list ... ))
>
>
>> (add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
>>   (quote
>>     ("Biber" "biber %s" TeX-run-Biber nil t :help "Run Biber")))
>
> along with the rest:
>
>> (eval-after-load "tex"
>>   (quote (defun TeX-Biber-sentinel (process name)

Oh, and by the way: you don't exactly make things faster by hundreds of
separate eval-after-load calls.  Just wrap all in a single

(eval-after-load "tex"
  '(progn
     first-command
     second-command
     andsoon
  )
)

-- 
David Kastrup