Re: [AUCTeX] error entering $

[David Kastrup]

Jim Burton <address@hidden> writes:

> I am using version 11.83-4 via the ubuntu Feisty package on emacs 21.4.1 and
> *sometimes* when I try to enter a $ I get an error:
>
> Wrong number of arguments: #<subr set-match-data>,2
>
> I get the same error using C-C C-f C-e to emphasise text (whether or
> not there is a selected region), but like I say, this might not happen
> the next time I work on the same file...is this something I can fix or
> should I stop using the deb and install the latest version?

The AUCTeX source does not contain set-match-data (don't know whether it
did in 11.83; grep for it).  But the compiled Lisp files do, probably
because of a save-match-data macro.  So it would seem that you have
elc files compiled with the wrong Emacs version in your path, or a
set-match-data macro definition from the wrong Emacs version.

M-x list-load-path-shadows RET

might help in diagnosing the problem, but if I remember correctly, on
Debian the list is rather depressingly large because of a fundamental
Emacs package policy misdesign.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum