Re: Help requested in setting up auctex.

* Sharon Kimble (2005-03-15) writes:

> I'm using GNU emacs 21.3.1 [the stock build with Fedora Core 3] and I 
> have installed auctex-emacs-11.54-2.fedora.noarch.rpm as 
> auctex-emacs-11.55-1.fedora.noarch.rpm complained about a conflict with 
> emacspeak-17.0-7. 

AUCTeX 11.54 has an ugly bug related to filling which will insert
unwanted whitespace in your file.  It would be better to get rid of
the outdated Emacspeak package in install AUCTeX 11.55.  You might
also want to have look at the release notes of AUCTeX 11.55.

> I have this in my .emacs;-
> ===========================
>   (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/")
>     (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/")

AFAICT this should not be necessary.

> but when I load in testy.tex [built with kile] and as follows;-
[...]
> I'm expecting a latex-type menu to show in the main menus, but nothing shows.
>
> Is my expectation wrong, or is there something I'm missing in my setup please?

It is likely that there is an error during startup.  You could start
Emacs with `emacs --debug-init' and/or put

(setq debug-on-error t)

as the first line into your init file and see if you get a backtrace
after restarting Emacs and loading a LaTeX file.

-- 
Ralf