Re: Windows change?

Sean Hallgren <[email protected]> writes:

> I'm trying to install auc-tex on XP and my old init files (that work
> on several other computers running XP) don't work.  I get: "File
> mode specification error: (void-variable TeX-auto-global".  This
> seems to be a result of calling (autoload 'tex-mode "tex" no-doc t)
> in tex-site.el. I tried commenting that out, which gives no error,
> but C-c C-c doesn't work in any case.  Did something change?

Why would we release new versions if nothing changed?

> I saw a complicated looking install thing at "Installation under MS
> Windows", but I don't see a date, so I don't know if that's new or
> old.  Plus doing seems complicated.

The AUCTeX package comes with installation instructions inside.  Those
are accurate (as well as we could manage) for the version of AUCTeX
that they are contained in.  Please don't just use any instructions
you find flying around on the web: of course they will more likely
than not be wrong for the particular version of AUCTeX you are using.

Packages change, and so do the instructions for "init files".  Without
you using the bug report commands or including the information by
hand, it is impossible to guess what you might have been writing in
your init files, and what version of AUCTeX you are trying to get to
work.

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