Hi,
I have made some (surprising) progress on my problem.
I am lacking the Emacs-Lisp knowledge to go much farther
and also some energy now because reaching this was
already non-trivial and time-consuming.
(and today that's the Third important "bug" in software
I have been confronted with)
Please believe me because what I am going to explain
is barely credible.
I mentioned I am using this built:
https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport/releases/tag/emacs-25.1-mac-6.1
I am not sure if it is related to this or is an intrinsic
behaviour of AucTeX, but all my problems go back to the
fact that I customized TeX-command-list,
(coincidentally it got mentioned in another thread.)
The actual contents of my customization is **not** the cause, the
actual cause seems to be that I have **removed** some stuff...
let me try to clarify
if my custom.el contains for TeX-command-list this:
(which is the start of the default)
'(TeX-command-list
(quote
(("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) %(file-line-error) %(extraopts) %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil
(plain-tex-mode ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode)
:help "Run plain TeX")
("LaTeX" "%`%l%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil
(latex-mode doctex-mode)
:help "Run LaTeX")
("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %(extraopts) %t" TeX-run-compile nil
(texinfo-mode)
:help "Run Makeinfo with Info output")
("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo %(extraopts) --html %t" TeX-run-compile nil
(texinfo-mode)
:help "Run Makeinfo with HTML output")
("AmSTeX" "amstex %(PDFout) %(extraopts) %`%S%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil
(ams-tex-mode)
:help "Run AMSTeX")
("ConTeXt" "%(cntxcom) --once --texutil %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil
(context-mode)
:help "Run ConTeXt once")
("ConTeXt Full" "%(cntxcom) %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil
(context-mode)
:help "Run ConTeXt until completion")
("BibTeX" "%(bibtex) %s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil t :help "Run BibTeX")
("Biber" "biber %s" TeX-run-Biber nil t :help "Run Biber")
("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard-or-function t t :help "Run Viewer")
("Print" "%p" TeX-run-command t t :help "Print the file")
("Queue" "%q" TeX-run-background nil t :help "View the printer queue" :visible TeX-queue-command)
("File" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-dvips t t :help "Generate PostScript file")
("Dvips" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-dvips nil t :help "Convert DVI file to PostScript")
("Dvipdfmx" "dvipdfmx %d" TeX-run-dvipdfmx nil t :help "Convert DVI file to PDF with dvipdfmx")
("Ps2pdf" "ps2pdf %f" TeX-run-ps2pdf nil t :help "Convert PostScript file to PDF")
("Index" "%(makeindex) %s" TeX-run-index nil t :help "Run makeindex to create index file")
)))
then all is fine. But take the exact same except that your remove the last line
("Index" "%(makeindex) %s" TeX-run-index nil t :help "Run makeindex to create index file")
then, my problem appears. (quit and relaunch Emacs when subtracting; when adding
I only need to do load-file)
In more detail:
with the set-up above up to **and including** the Index line, when
I go and open a buffer on a file using a Japanese class, then,
much to my surprise
(and it is a quite ironical because it all started with me wanting
to learn about Japanese LaTeX classes), the TeX-command-list
actually changes (is this AUCTeX official behaviour ?) and gets more entries:
(which I should have seen years ago but never got too because this process
is broken when I customize TeX-command-list in a certain way)
("jTeX" "%(PDF)jtex %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil
(plain-tex-mode)
:help "Run NTT jTeX")
("jLaTeX" "%(PDF)jlatex %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil
(latex-mode)
:help "Run NTT jLaTeX")
("pTeX" "%(PDF)ptex %(kanjiopt)%`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil
(plain-tex-mode)
:help "Run ASCII pTeX")
("pLaTeX" "%(PDF)platex %(kanjiopt)%`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil
(latex-mode)
:help "Run ASCII pLaTeX")
("Mendex" "mendex %(mendexkopt)%s" TeX-run-command nil t :help "Create index file with mendex")
("jBibTeX" "jbibtex %s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil t :help "Run jBibTeX")
("pBibTeX" "pbibtex %(kanjiopt)%s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil t :help "Run pBibTeX")
("-" "" ignore nil t)
which are inserted at start of TeX-command-list
(once this insertion is done it remains in effect in buffers
not using the Japanese class)
If I omit the
("Index" "%(makeindex) %s" TeX-run-index nil t :help "Run makeindex to create index file")
then this insertion of extra things seemingly does NOT HAPPEN
when I open a buffer on a file like testmendex.tex, and an
error is reported instead.
My own customizations can be all put at end of TeX-command-list
they are not by themselves the cause of the problem
(further I have the exact same customizations
on the Ubuntu thing I mentioned in a previous message, and all
works well there)
The thing is that, to the extent I could determine after a rather
long deduction process, the patch done either by AUCTeX itself
or by the special Emacs build I am using succeeds only under
the above described circumstances: remove Index line, it fails.
Include it, it succeeds, completely independently of the
next entries if there are some in TeX-command-list inside custom.el
To be honest I have not tried to determine the minimal conditions
of success. Perhaps I could remove
some earlier lines, perhaps not, I have no idea. (I tried with
only the Index thing and it failed).
Well, I am condemned it seems to start my TeX-command-list
with the above canonical entries.
This will give me opportunity to freshen a bit my
TeX-command-list entries which got frozen quite some years ago
As long as the above entries are there, I can pile up my own
things and also the old things not mine at end of list without
creating the problem.
Jean-François