Re: a minor problem with AUCTEX. Please help.

[Leo]

On 2010-01-18 22:00 +0000, Porky Pig wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been using EMACS+AUCTEX under Windows XP for many years, with
> MikTeX, so I"m kind of familiar with its behavior.  A few days ago
> I've downloaded the latest EMACS for Windows (23.1.1) + the latest
> AUCTEX. Still Windows XP. Now the problem. I use Latex2E to process
> the .tex fils and create the dvi. Now when there is a compilation
> error, I press C-c C-` to look the error log. The screen gets split,
> the error logs shows up in the lower windows, *but* the upper part is
> empty. So I have to go to the buffer list and re-read the .tex file
> into the upper window. Then the file shows up, with a cursor pointing
> to the possible location of the error, as it should be.
>
> Now with my old setup I had a similar situation on occasion: when
> AUCTEX can't parse the error, so when I press C-c C-` I get the empty
> buffer. With my new setup, however, it happens all the time Latex2e
> detects the error.
>
> I wonder whether there's some AUCTEX parameter I can tweak.
>
> TIA.
>
> (Note: I run portable MIKTEX, and I install and run EMACS+AUCTEX from
> the same USB flash drive. Other than that problem I've described,
> everything appears to work just fine, but, of course a bit slow.)

There was some fix on this issue. Could you try the AUCTeX devel version
from CVS?

Leo