[AUCTeX] Symbol's value as variable is void: LaTeX-reftex-cite-format-auto-activate

[Alfredo Buttari]

Dear all,
whenever I try to open a .tex file in Emacs I get the error in the
subject. The file is opened in the background so I have to search
through my buffers to see it.

Could you please help me fixing this problem?

Kind regards,
Alfredo

[Arash Esbati]

Post by Alfredo Buttari
whenever I try to open a .tex file in Emacs I get the error in the
subject. The file is opened in the background so I have to search
through my buffers to see it.
Could you please help me fixing this problem?

Hi Alfredo,

`LaTeX-reftex-cite-format-auto-activate' was introduced in AUCTeX
11.90.

,----[ News in 11.90 ]
| AUCTeX has a new custom option LaTeX-reftex-cite-format-auto-activate
| which controls the automatic activation of citation formats provided by
| RefTeX when a style file is loaded and RefTeX is enabled. Currently,
| ‘biblatex.el’, ‘harvard.el’, ‘jurabib.el’ and ‘natbib.el’ use this
| feature. If you have customized reftex-cite-format and want to use your
| settings, you should set this variable to nil.
`----

I suspect you have 2 AUCTeX installations on your HD and you load new
style files with on older tex-style.el which is incompatible. Can you
please search your file system for tex-style.el and check for a bogus
installation?

Best, Arash

[Alfredo Buttari]

Dear Arash,
that was indeed the case! I had two different auctex version, one
installed through the apt package manager and the other through the
emacs package manager. I did some cleanup and everything works fine
now.

Thanks a lot.

Kind regards,
Alfredo

Post by Arash Esbati

Post by Alfredo Buttari
whenever I try to open a .tex file in Emacs I get the error in the
subject. The file is opened in the background so I have to search
through my buffers to see it.
Could you please help me fixing this problem?

Hi Alfredo,
`LaTeX-reftex-cite-format-auto-activate' was introduced in AUCTeX
11.90.
,----[ News in 11.90 ]
| AUCTeX has a new custom option LaTeX-reftex-cite-format-auto-activate
| which controls the automatic activation of citation formats provided by
| RefTeX when a style file is loaded and RefTeX is enabled. Currently,
| ‘biblatex.el’, ‘harvard.el’, ‘jurabib.el’ and ‘natbib.el’ use this
| feature. If you have customized reftex-cite-format and want to use your
| settings, you should set this variable to nil.
`----
I suspect you have 2 AUCTeX installations on your HD and you load new
style files with on older tex-style.el which is incompatible. Can you
please search your file system for tex-style.el and check for a bogus
installation?
Best, Arash

[Ikumi Keita]

Hi Alfredo,

Post by Alfredo Buttari
whenever I try to open a .tex file in Emacs I get the error in the
subject. The file is opened in the background so I have to search
through my buffers to see it.
Could you please help me fixing this problem?

Could you provide some more information so that we can reproduce the
symptom and examine the problem? The output of M-x
TeX-submit-bug-report and the sample files would be helpful. It would
also be a good idea to try enabling debug-on-error option as described
on https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex/FAQ.html and to
provide us the backtrace.

Regards,
Ikumi Keita