[AUCTeX-devel] problems with xemacs 21.5.28

[Artemio Gonzalez Lopez]

The latest CVS auctex doesn't work well with the latest CVS xemacs 
(21.5.28) for me. More specifically, I'm having the following problems:

1) Syntax hilighting is broken. When I open a tex document, I get the 
following error message in the status bar:

itimer "lazy shot for foo.tex" signaled: (wrong-type-argument 
number-char-or-marker-p nil)

This also happens from many times when I scroll through the document.
The status bar also freezes often with the message "Fontifying foo.tex: 
regexps" (with an equally frozen progress bar)

2) As soon as I type tex macros like "newcommand" I get the following 
backtrace:

(1) (general/warning) Error in unknown: Wrong type argument: 
number-char-or-marker-p, nil

Backtrace follows:

  byte-code("..." [error-indicator-pos alternative end match-beg spec 
spec-list font-latex-forward-comment ?| t ?\\ nil "A-Za-z@" 0 "*" throw 
break ?{ font-latex-find-matching-close ?} font-lock-variable-name-face 
match-data font-latex-matched-faces syntax-error face beg 
font-latex-command-with-args-opt-arg-delims] 4)
  # (catch break ...)
  # bind (parse-sexp-ignore-comments spec-list error-indicator-pos spec 
alternative syntax-error match-beg match-data end beg)
  byte-code("..." [error-indicator-pos syntax-error end beg spec-list 
match-data re-search-forward t font-latex-faces-present-p 
(font-lock-comment-face font-latex-verbatim-face) 0 nil string-to-list 
assoc match-string 1 add-to-list ?* "*" font-latex-matched-faces 
font-lock-keyword-face break (byte-code "
č

Cheers,

Artemio

=======================================================================================
Installation info:

uname -a: Darwin imac-g5.local 8.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.0: Thu 
Feb 22 20:54:07 PST 2007; root:xnu-792.17.14~1/RELEASE_PPC Power 
Macintosh powerpc

./configure  '--with-site-prefixes=/opt/local' 
'--disable-error-checking' '--with-ldap=no' '--with-postgresql=no' 
'--with-default-eol-detection' '--without-mule' '--with-tty' 
'--with-ncurses' '--with-scrollbars=motif' '--with-dialogs=motif' 
'--with-widgets=motif' '--with-optimization'


XEmacs 21.5-b28 "fuki"  configured for `powerpc-apple-darwin8.9.0'.

Compilation Environment and Installation Defaults:
  Source code location: 
/Users/artemio/Archive/xemacs/xemacs-21.5.28
  Installation prefix:               /usr/local
  Additional prefixes:               /opt/local
  Operating system description file: `s/darwin.h'
  Machine description file:          `m/powerpc.h'
  Compiler version:                  powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 
(GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)
    - GCC specs file:                specs.
    - Compiler command:              gcc   -Wall -Wno-switch -Wundef 
-Wsign-compare -Wno-char-subscripts -Wpacked -Wpointer-arith 
-Wunused-parameter -g -O3
  libc version:
  Relocating allocator for buffers:  no
  GNU version of malloc:             no
    - The GNU allocators don't work with this system configuration.

Window System:
  Compiling in support for the X window system:
    - X Windows headers location:                 /usr/X11R6/include
    - X Windows libraries location:               /usr/X11R6/lib
    - Handling WM_COMMAND properly.
  Compiling in support for Motif.
  *WARNING*  Many versions of Motif are buggy, requiring workarounds.
             You are likely to experience slow redisplay.
             You may need to install vendor patches to Motif.
             See PROBLEMS for more information.
  Using Lucid menubars.
  Using Motif scrollbars.
  Using Motif dialog boxes.
  Using Motif native widgets.

TTY:
  Compiling in support for ncurses.

Images:
  Compiling in support for GIF  images (builtin).
  Compiling in support for XPM  images.
  Compiling in support for PNG  images.
  Compiling in support for JPEG images.
  Compiling in support for TIFF images.

Sound:

Databases:
  Compiling in support for Berkeley database.
  Compiling in support for DBM.

Internationalization:

Mail:
  Compiling in support for "file" mail spool file locking method.

Other Features:
  Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup.
  Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules.
  Using the new GC mark algorithms (KKCC).
  WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------
  WARNING: The new algorithms are experimental. They are enabled by
  WARNING: default for this release. Use `--disable-kkcc' to
  WARNING: turn it off.
  WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------
  Using the new portable dumper.
  Dumping into executable.
  Compiling in support for extra debugging code.

=========================================================================================

To: address@hidden
Subject: 2007-03-12;
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Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and
what in fact did happen.

Be sure to consult the FAQ section in the manual before submitting
a bug report.  In addition check if the bug is reproducable with an
up-to-date version of AUCTeX.  So please upgrade to the version
available from http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ if your
installation is older than the one available from the web site.

If the bug is triggered by a specific (La)TeX file, you should try
to produce a minimal sample file showing the problem and include it
in your report.

Your bug report will be posted to the AUCTeX bug reporting list.
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Emacs  : XEmacs 21.5  (beta28) "fuki" [Lucid] 
(powerpc-apple-darwin8.9.0) of Mon May 21 2007 on imac-g5.local
Package: 2007-03-12

current state:
==============
(setq
 AUCTeX-date "2007-03-12"
 window-system 'x
 LaTeX-version "2e"
 TeX-style-path '("style" "auto"
                  "/Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/auctex/style"
                  "/Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/var/auctex/")
 TeX-auto-save t
 TeX-parse-self t
 TeX-master nil
 TeX-command-list '(("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" 
TeX-run-TeX
                     nil (plain-tex-mode texinfo-mode ams-tex-mode) :help
                     "Run plain TeX")
                    ("LaTeX" "%`%l%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil
                     (latex-mode doctex-mode) :help "Run LaTeX")
                    ("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %t" TeX-run-compile nil
                     (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with Info output")
                    ("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo --html %t" TeX-run-compile nil
                     (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with HTML output")
                    ("AmSTeX" "%(PDF)amstex %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t"
                     TeX-run-TeX nil (ams-tex-mode) :help "Run AMSTeX")
                    ("ConTeXt" "texexec --once --texutil %(execopts)%t"
                     TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt once")
                    ("ConTeXt Full" "texexec %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil
                     (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt until completion")
                    ("BibTeX" "bibtex %s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil t :help
                     "Run BibTeX")
                    ("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard 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 -t a4 %d -o %f " TeX-run-command t t
                     :help "Generate PostScript file")
                    ("Index" "makeindex %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help
                     "Create index file")
                    ("Check" "lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode)
                     :help "Check LaTeX file for correctness")
                    ("ChkTeX" "chktex -v3 %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode)
                     :help "Check LaTeX file for correctness with chktex")
                    ("Spell" "(TeX-ispell-document \"\")" TeX-run-function nil
                     t :help "Spell-check the document")
                    ("Clean" "TeX-clean" TeX-run-function nil t :help
                     "Delete generated intermediate files")
                    ("Clean All" "(TeX-clean t)" TeX-run-function nil t :help
                     "Delete generated intermediate and output files")
                    ("GhostView" "gv %f" TeX-run-command t t :help
                     "Run GhostView")
                    ("ps2pdf" "ps2pdf %f" TeX-run-command t t :help
                     "Run ps2pdf")
                    ("Other" "" TeX-run-command t t :help
                     "Run an arbitrary command")
                    )
 )