Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] rel-0-9-1; See http://tinyurl.com/qla6w

[Chris Menzel]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:26:39AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> Christopher Menzel <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I have solved the problem first reported in the msg below (posted
> > originally to comp.text.tex) by compiling the latest Emacs CVS
> > sources.  Since I'm using the same version of auctex/preview-latex
> > and the same gs-related utilities, the problem appears to have
> > something to do with Emacs 22.0.50.x.  Note I have seen this problem
> > with preview-latex now in three different versions of Emacs 22.0.50
> > on two different platforms -- two versions on Mac OS X (Aquamacs
> > Emacs and the DarwinPorts port) and the emacs-devel port on FreeBSD.
> >
> > Thanks to David Kastrup for the time he put into trying to help me
> > sort this out after I first posted.
> 
> The subject of this mail suggests that you used
> M-x preview-report-bug RET
> for preparing this report, then cut away all useful information this
> command put into the mail.

Well, that would be a pretty idiotic thing to do, which suggests there
is perhaps a better explanation.  The subject of that email became an
identifier in a fairly lengthy exchange with you last month -- I
therefore re-used that subject in the belief that it might be helpful
for you and perhaps others who might want to review our discussion.  In
your first reply in our exchange (initially just to comp.text.tex,
IIRC), you instructed me to use "M-x preview-report-bug", which I did,
and of course I did not cut away any useful information and also, in
subsequent messages, I tried to add as much relevant detail as possible.
Apparently retaining the old subject line didn't have the intended
effect.  Our exchange on bug-auctex starts here (though one not very
important msg from me appears to be missing):

  http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg00671.html

> However, there is one tiny scrap of information that you have _not_
> cut away, and that is the subject line itself.
> 
> It would appear that you use an ancient version of preview-latex.

As you noted in your first reply to me.  Removing the old version of
preview-latex and updating to auctex 11.83 was of course the first thing
I tried, as noted in the course of our earlier exchange.  The fact that
this did not solve the problem is what made the case particularly
puzzling.

> Since AUCTeX version 11.80, preview-latex has become an _integral_
> part of preview-latex.  _Don't_ install ancient versions of
> preview-latex over it, or who knows what may happen.

Indeed, though of course I never did that; I was using both an old
version of auctex (11.55) and an old version of preview-latex before I
removed them and upgraded.

> Just remove all traces of a separate preview-latex installation and
> use the one that comes with AUCTeX.

As noted, did that, to no avail.  I was simply following up here with a
further, possibly helpful data point vis-a-vis our earlier conversation.

-cm