Re: [AUCTeX] Disappearing Reftex

[David Kastrup]

Alan Ristow <address@hidden> writes:

> Reftex keeps unloading on me and I'm not sure why. I thought I'd
> tracked the problem to a bad command in my .emacs file and
> everything seemed fine after I fixed it. However, after working in
> Emacs for a little while today I hit C-c [ and the minibuffer
> informed me that key binding is undefined. Sure enough, the Ref menu
> had disappeared as well. After a bit more troubleshooting today I
> noticed quite by accident that the Ref menu disappears within 10
> seconds or so of startup, and does so at exactly the same time the
> "GNU Emacs" buffer that serves as a welcome screen unloads. The
> first line of my .emacs file is (setq debug-on-error t), but it
> doesn't pop up anything up when Reftex unloads. As a relative newbie
> to Emacs and AUCTeX I've exhausted my ability to debug this any
> further myself.

(setq init-file-debug t)

at the start of .emacs.

> I should note that I have installed gnuclient on my system and only
> have this problem when I double-click on my .tex file to open it
> with Emacs. If I open Emacs first, then open the file via C-x C-f
> the Ref menu (and the rest of Reftex) sticks around. However, I'm
> not sure if this is truly related to gnuclient, as when I comment
> out the gnuclient-related commands from .emacs file I can no longer
> open the file by double-clicking. In this case, since the "GNU
> Emacs" buffer unloads the moment I hit C-x C-f it is gone before
> Reftex ever loads and they never have the opportunity to unload
> together.

Hm.

> My .emacs file follows -- is there anything obvious that could lead to this?

> (setq debug-on-error t)
>
> ;; set frame geometry
> (set-frame-height (selected-frame) 42)
> (set-frame-width (selected-frame) 80)
>
> ;; start gnuserv on Windows
> (if (or (eq window-system 'w32) (eq window-system 'win32))
>     (progn
>       (require 'gnuserv)
>       (setq server-done-function 'bury-buffer
>       gnuserv-frame (car (frame-list)))
>       (gnuserv-start)
>       ;;; open buffer in existing frame instead of creating new one...
>       (setq gnuserv-frame (selected-frame))
>       (message "gnuserv started.")))
>
> ;; set up for MiKTeX
> (require 'tex-mik)

Which version of AUCTeX do you use?

> (defun my-latex-setup ()
>   "Customize up my LaTeX environment."
>   (setq default-input-method "TeX"))

I'd use (set (make-local-variable 'default-input-method) "TeX") instead.

> (autoload 'turn-on-reftex "reftex" "RefTeX Minor Mode" nil)
> (autoload 'reftex-citation "reftex-cite" "Make Citation" nil)
> (autoload 'reftex-index-phrase-mode "reftex-index" "Phrase Mode" t)

Remove all of those autoloads.  I guess they are the problem.  Do you
remember where you got the idea to place them?  It is not the first
time I have seen people do this, and if it is something in the
documentation that makes people do it, it should get fixed.

> (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex) ; with AUCTeX LaTeX mode
> (add-hook 'latex-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex)
> (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'my-latex-setup)
> (add-hook 'latex-mode-hook 'my-latex-setup)
> (setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t)


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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum