SOLVED [Re: Help requested in setting up auctex.]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:22:38 +0100, Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> wrote:
> * 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 the outdated Emacspeak package in install AUCTeX 11.55.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 did 'yum remove emacspeak' and then using yum I installed 11.55
which I'd already downloaded.
> 
> > 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.

I've commented out these two lines now.
> 
> > 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.

Thanks Ralf. I put the 'setq' into my .emacs, restarted it and then
loaded 'testy.tex' and its come up with dolouration of the commands
and the latex menu. Problem now solved, thank you.

Sharon.