Re: [AUCTeX] AUCTeX 11.87 released (elpa)

[Sebastian Wiesner]

2012/12/5 George McNinch <address@hidden>:
> Hi--
>
> Concerning this:
>
>>>>>> "Tassilo" == Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:
>
>     >>> But I can update the AUCTeX files on the ELPA branch tomorrow
>     >>> and ask on emacs-devel so that someone updates the package.
>
>     Tassilo> It turned out not to be that easy.  The auctex package in
>     Tassilo> the elpa branch uses a different directory layout which
>     Tassilo> seems to make some manual adaptions needed here and there.
>     ...
>
> I have been using AUCTeX 11.86 from elpa for a while. Upon upgrading
> yesterday to 11.87, "things broke".
>
> More precisely, if I do
>
>    M-x list-packages  U x
>
> to install AUCTeX 11.87, restart emacs, and visit a LaTeX file in an
> emacs buffer, I get the following error:
>
>    File mode specification error: (void-variable latex-mode)

I got rid of the same error by removing the AUCTeX package completely
("list-packages", find all installed AUCTeX packages, mark each with
"D" and press "x" eventually), re-starting Emacs, and re-installing
AUCTeX from scratch with "M-x package-install auctex".

>
> The problem goes away if I revert to the 11.86 elpa package (fortunately
> for me, my ~/.emacs.d lives in dropbox, so it was easy to revert. The
> first time I installed the elpa package for AUCTeX 11.87, I subsequently
> chose to delete the 11.86 package via the package manager...)
>
> It seems possible (??) that my "AUCTeX initialization" is dated - I
> haven't thought much about it for a while. The (only) code in my emacs
> initialization related to AUCTeX seems to be the following:
>
> ,----
> | (require 'tex-site)
> | (require 'tex)
> |
> | (TeX-global-PDF-mode)
> |
> | ;;;reftex
> |
> | (require  'reftex)
> | (autoload 'reftex-mode    "reftex" "RefTeX Minor Mode" t)
> | (autoload 'turn-on-reftex "reftex" "RefTeX Minor Mode" nil)
> | (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex)   ; with AUCTeX LaTeX mode
> | (setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t)
> `----
>
> But skimming the Info files just now, this didn't seem problematic.
>
> (I know: shameful that I don't use preview-latex yet...)
>
> Well: as I said, the 11.86 elpa package works fine for me (with the
> above initialization stuff).
>
> Best,
> george
>
> --
>   George McNinch <gmcninch(at)gmail.com>
>   http://gmcninch.math.tufts.edu
>
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