Re: [AUCTeX] Install report: Emacs and Windows 98

[Harald von Aschen]

At 14:15 22.07.05 +0200, Uwe Siart wrote:
> On 22 Jul 2005 at 12:03, Harald von Aschen wrote:
>
> > (b) After having much trouble with AUCTeX 11.55 (I was not able to use
> > multifile documents without much handwork)
>
> This may be my fault: In the very first release of my german
> installation instructions I intentionally did *not* mention
>
>   (setq TeX-auto-save t)
>
> because users new to AUCTeX often asked haggardly about the purpose of
> those /auto directories. Meanwhile I learned that they are absolutely
> necessary for proper multifile support and in recent versions of my
> tutorial I corrected this.

No, this was surely not your fault. I have looked into the docu and have 
added this by hand with no success.

And then I have had great troubles with AUCTeX 11.55 because it seems that 
it doesn't like some of my old *.el files in my auto directories. 
Nevertheless, for the old files this might be my fault, I should have 
deleted the *.el files by hand.

And there were several problems: C-c _ was not working in no case, only the 
command TeX-master-file-ask was (sometimes) working but although 
TeX-auto-save = t was set closing and opening the file results in loosing 
again the masterfile. Sometimes I was able to do some LaTeX cycles through 
my just opened subdocument and then suddenly the next run results in 
loosing the master file again. And on some files even TeX-master-file-ask 
does nothing. I was very frustrated and because of having no more time I 
stopped my efforts in May.

I don't know and I'm very sorry not to have much time to look into it 
again, but now with the 20050716-a-version it seemed that the problems are 
fixed and I can open my "old" documents without changing anything.

If anyone really wants I certainly can fetch from my backup the AUCTeX 
11.55 version and Emacs version downloaded May this year again and do an 
installation but if no one else has problems like this it would be a little 
bit useless.

Best regards, Harald