Re: [O] orgmode and auctex

[Carsten Dominik]

On 9.2.2012, at 21:08, Nick Dokos wrote:

> Thomas Alexander Gerds <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi Chris,
>> 
>> maybe I cannot follow exactly what you are trying to do, but when I
>> start emacs -q and evaluate (setq-default TeX-master nil) and then open
>> a new file test.tex, then I get the same prompt "Master file:".
>> 
> 
> I think Chris means that he gets the prompt when he opens a .org file.
> I couldn't reproduce that behavior when I tried it but I have not tried
> it again yet.

I think this prompt comes from the function `reftex-TeX-master-file'.  The
user is prompted when TeX-master is an existing variable (i.e. AUCTeX
is loaded), and when its value is nil or `shared'.

Greetings

- Carsten

> 
> Nick
> 
> 
>> so maybe, if you do not want to get prompted, you could try setting
>> (setq-default TeX-master t). 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Tomy
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Christopher Witte <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> 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
>>>> 
>> --
>> Thomas A. Gerds -- Assoc. Prof. Department of Biostatistics
>> University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark
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