Re: strange feature interaction: gnu emacs 21.4/ auc-tex 11.55/listings.el: font-latex-match-textual-keywords-local

[David Kastrup]

Martin Steffen <ms@informatik.uni-kiel.de> writes:

> recently, the local sys-admins upgraded to emacs 21.4. Everything's fine
> except that the AUC-TeX mode suddenly chokes on visiting a latex-file for
> the first time; i.e., when evaluating the corresponding load-hooks, the
> loading of the file into the buffer breaks stating
>
>    Symbol's value as variable is void: font-latex-match-textual-keywords-local
>
>
>
> Trying to nail down the problem by switching on the debugger: it seems that
> the error occurs when it loads all kinds of auc-tex auxiliary files
> containing the lisp-codes for various style files, in particular the one
> for listings.sty breaks:
>
>    Loading /<global-place>/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/style/listings.elc...
>
> give the above error, but I could not find out what's wrong. I tried
> tentatively to simply set the variable to some value, but that doesn't
> help, there are further errors down the loading, and there must be
> something wrong more deeply.
>
>
> Strangely enough, when I try to load the file a second time, emacs does not
> complain.?!
>
> Any hint, which of the packages could be the culprit, is welcome.

M-x list-load-path-shadows RET

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