Setting TeX-interactive-mode active in AUCTeX does let me send any input to TeX on Mac OS X

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

Setting TeX-interactive-mode active in AUCTeX in GNU Emacs 22.0.93 or  
in Carbon Emacs (based on GNU Emacs 22.0.9x) lets me send an 'x' from  
the file's corresponding AUCTeX *output* buffer to the TeX executable  
to make it quit when it hits an error in the TeX source, but not in  
GNU Emacs 23.0.0 and in Emacs.app, based on the same (Uni)code.

There are some diferences from describe-mode:

          Enabled minor modes: Auto-Compression Blink-Cursor Column-Number
        ! Desktop-Save Display-Time File-Name-Shadow Global-Auto-Composition
        ! Global-Font-Lock Line-Number Menu-Bar Mouse-Wheel Shell-Dirtrack
        ! Show-Paren Tex-Pdf Tooltip Transient-Mark
        
        --- 1,86 ----
          Enabled minor modes: Auto-Compression Blink-Cursor Column-Number
        ! Desktop-Save Display-Time File-Name-Shadow Font-Lock Global-Font-Lock
        ! Line-Number Menu-Bar Mouse-Wheel Shell-Dirtrack Show-Paren Tex-Pdf
        ! Tooltip Transient-Mark Unify-8859-On-Encoding Utf-Translate-Cjk

and while GNU Emacs 23 describes the "major-mode" XeLaTeX in two line  
like

        Major mode not specialized for anything in particular.
        Other major modes are defined by comparison with this one.

GNU Emacs 22.0.93 makes it almost 80 lines long, including some key  
bindings.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d  
scroll bars)
of 2007-02-03 on Latsche.local
X server distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40400000
configured using `configure  '--without-ns' '--without-carbon' '-- 
with-x' '--without-sound' '--without-pop' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg'  
'--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' '--enable-locallisppath=/ 
Library/Application Support/Emacs/calendar23:/Library/Application  
Support/Emacs/preview:/Library/Application Support/Emacs/auctex/ 
images:/Library/Application Support/Emacs/auctex:/Library/Application  
Support/Emacs' 'CFLAGS=-pipe -fPIC -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -fast -mpim- 
altivec -ftree-vectorize -foptimize-register-move -freorder-blocks - 
freorder-blocks-and-partition -fthread-jumps -fpeephole -fno- 
crossjumping' 'CPPFLAGS=-no-cpp-precomp -I/usr/include/openssl -I/usr/ 
local/include -I/sw/lib/freetype219/include -I/sw/lib/freetype219/ 
include/freetype2 -I/sw/lib/fontconfig2/include -I/sw/include/ 
libpng12 -I/sw/include -idirafter /usr/X11R6/include' 'LDFLAGS=- 
dead_strip -bind_at_load -multiply_defined suppress -L/usr/X11R6/lib - 
L/usr/local/lib -L/sw/lib/ncurses -L/sw/lib''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: XeLaTeX		<< some side effect from %%% TeX-command- 
default: "XeLaTeX" local variable

Minor modes in effect:
  TeX-PDF-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

--
Greetings

  Pete

"Isn't vi that text editor with two modes... one that beeps and one
that corrupts your file?" -- Dan Jacobson, on comp.os.linux.advocacy