Re: Call for testers: prerelease Xemacs auctex-1.44 (sync with 11.54)

>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:

    Ralf> * Uwe Brauer (2005-01-19) writes:
    >>>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:
    >> 
    Ralf> * Uwe Brauer (2005-01-19) writes:
    >> >> I  would like to ask  the users to   test this new  release,
    >> >>  especially users  which  use   Miktex  in the  MS   windows
    >> >> environment.
    >> >> 
    >> >> An important point is to know whether the variable 
    >> >> TeX-macro-global has been set correctly.
    >> 
    Ralf> You are setting it to nil in tex-site.el, regardless of
    Ralf> the environment.  So all you will get to hear from users
    Ralf> is that the value is nil unless they set it manually.
    >> 
    >> Well not really
    >> (eval-after-load "tex"
    >> '(if (and (not TeX-macro-global)
    >> (or (getenv "TEXMFCNF")
    >> (getenv "TEXMFLOCAL")))
    >> 
    >> That works for me, that  is the infamous  question does not pop
    >> up for  me, TeX-macro-global is set to  the correct paths in my
    >> environment.

    Ralf> What you are  showing above does not set  `TeX-macro-global'
    Ralf> in any way.   And I could not  find any other place  besides
    Ralf> its defcustom where its value is changed.  That means if the
    Ralf>  value of this variable  is  not nil in   your case, you set
    Ralf> manually somewhere.

Then I am really puzzled because using the 1.44 Xemacs pkg I obtain


`TeX-macro-global' is a variable declared in Lisp.
  -- loaded from "tex"

Value: ("\"/usr/share/texmf/tex/\"\n    \"/usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/\"")

Documentation:
Directories containing the sites TeX macro files and style files.
The directory names *must* end with a slash.


    >> I don't know who this will work for MS though.

[snip]

    Ralf>  Last time I mentioned  this as one  of two alternatives for
    Ralf> dealing with `TeX-macro-global' in  XEmacs you wrote "For me
    Ralf> both solutions look fine".[1]  Could you please tie yourself
    Ralf> down to one direction or the other?

If I remember correctly, after I  replied to you, David mentioned that
this code is may be not tested enough to be included in 11.54

So I propose: let us wait some days, if users are showing up and
complain, I would like to ask you for your code, if not then let us
wait for 11.55. OK?
    Ralf> Anyway,  please label   that change  clearly  as an   XEmacs
    Ralf> specific so that users can address queries correctly.

Ok, you are right, let me think about an appropriate docstring then.

Uwe 




    Ralf> Footnotes: 
    Ralf> [1] <URL:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.auc-tex:5365>

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