Re: [Brett Presnell] Re: Fedora Core 3: File mode specification error

Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:

> * Brett Presnell (2005-01-20) writes:
>
>> David Kastrup <[email protected]> writes:
>>> 
>>> We have had several reports of AUCTeX bombing out under Fedora Core 3.
>>> It turns out that the Emacspeak package is at fault here by bundling
>>> an utterly outdated version of regexp-opt.el.
>>
>> Wait.  I meant to mention this in my last message but I hit send too
>> soon.  I had checked, and the version of emacspeak that FC3 includes
>> is very old.  The most recent version of emacspeak (downloaded from
>> its homepage) does not inlude its own copy of regexp-opt.
>>
>> So the problem is not with emacspeak, but with Fedora.  Why are they
>> shipping such an old version of emacspeak?
>
> I don't know how packages in Fedora make their way to a release, but
> a bug report in Redhat's Bugzilla[1] mentions that a package of
> Emacspeak 21.0 was added to "FC devel".

Ok, so it appears that all necessary things outside of our own control
are already done.

Thanks for everybody, and sorry if we annoyed you unnecessarily.
Further replies directed to the AUCTeX list again.

So the only question that remains is how we are going to deal with
this ourselves.  It would appear that Fedora Core 3 has shipped with
an Emacspeak causing the problem.  We had several reports of this by
now if I remember correctly.

Probably there are not many calls of regexp-opt that can be passed
"nil".  A grep turns up quite a few calls, however.  As far as I can
see we have stuff in font-latex.el, tex-font.el (what is that?  The
header says "keep this in synch with Emacs-21.1 which we haven't, and
the changelog has no entry except this having been checked into
AUCTeX), tex.el and tex-buf.el.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum