Re: [AUCTeX] Several question on Auctex

[David Kastrup]

Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am new to Auctex, currently have several questions.
>
> I got two machines running LaTeX, one with Ubuntu and another one Windows XP
> with Cygwin.
>
> Ubuntu:
> -I want to have split screen in my emacs, this is my ~/.emacs
>
> (load "preview-latex.el" nil t t)
> (load "auctex.el" nil t t)
> (setq TeX-auto-save t)
> (setq TeX-parse-self t)
> (setq-default TeX-master nil)
>
> But instead of having split screen, it only shows the preview in the
> current page whenever I invoke to command in emacs-gtk.

What is "the preview"?  An external document previewer, or
preview-latex?  The former opens in a window of its own, the latter
works in-buffer.

> Win XP:
> Here I tried to compile my auctex after I got my XEmacs and emacs
> installed.

Both?  Hm.

> Does xemacs-sumo is compulsory for xemacs?

No, but I don't know whether we have a list of just _what_ you need
installed instead.

> I got this error out :
>
>
> Compiling /home/Najmi/auctex-11.85/tex-
> jp.el...
> While compiling toplevel forms in file /home/Najmi/auctex-11.85/tex-jp.el:
>   !! Symbol's function definition is void ((regexp-opt))
>>>Error occurred processing tex-jp.el:
> Symbol's function definition is void: regexp-opt

I would think that regexp-opt is part of xemacs-base (without installing
that, you are pretty much floored anyway).  Given a suitably current
version (i.e., not older than 5 years or so).

-- 
David Kastrup