Re: LaTeX/Emacs problem

[Fred Krogh]

On 01/06/2013 11:48 PM, Pierre Lorenzon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I encountered similar problems but not everytime ! With certain
> files errors cannot be detected and with other ones not. It
> sometimes depent on the place LaTeX is started from i.e. from
> the master file or not. In fact I have not completely
> identified the circumstances for which error finding
> fail. Anyway I suspect that your problem is an auctex problem
> and that you'd try to post on the auctex mailing list. If you
> might determine more precisely when error finding fails it
> might maybey help to determine where this bad behavior comes
> from.

This sounds like what I'm seeing now.

First of all, all the commands I've entered dealing with things like 
fmtutil-sys were run as root.

I have one short file that worked when run as root, but not as my usual 
user.  A longer tex file never works.

I uninstalled auctex, and things worked as one might expect without 
auctex.  The program tended to run to completion with an error message.
(I was simply inserting a command like \xxx.)

I then reinstalled auctex, and the short tex file worked very nicely 
with my usual user, and as root.  The long tex file (the kind I care 
about) worked with neither.

More sleuthing, and the long tex file works if I comment out
\usepackage{hyperref}

So that is looking like the real culprit.  Heiko Oberdiek is the 
maintainer of hyperref and if this email should reach him perhaps he 
will have some ideas.  For his information I've added my original message.
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A long time ago when I ran latex from inside emacs, if there were errors 
it would point me to the place with the error (maybe after <cntrl c 
`>?). For the last few years, when there was an error, I had to type 
<cntrl c `> that gave me a line number, I then had to kill that window 
to get back to my latex buffer, go to that line and fix the problem. Now 
another step backwards. After <cntrl c `> all I get now is " Error 
occurred after last TeX file closed". The only choice at this point 
seems to be running latex in a separate terminal window. I'd be 
interested if anyone else is having these sorts of problems, suggestions 
for tracking down the problem, or if you have it working perhaps your 
.emacs.el file?  I'm running TeXLive on a gentoo linux system.  Many thanks.