Re: path problem in auctex

>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <[email protected]> writes:

   > Uwe Brauer writes:

   > I'm getting confused.  In the previous mail you mentioned both
   > TeX-auto-private and TeX-style-private, but claimed that
   > TeX-auto-private is missing.  Now you're saying TeX-style-private is
   > missing, and its value is named "auto".

   > I guess that XEmacs isn't lying when you copy the output from C-h v,
   > but overall it's very hard to be confident of the reliability of your
   > reports.

Ok, I should not write reports when I am overworked, sorry. 

I try to restart from scratch. I have deleted the relevant parts in my
custom file and restarted xemacs.

The relevant parts of my .emacs file look like that


(load-file "~/xemacs/init/xemacs_init.el") 
(setq custom-file "/home/oub/xemacs/init/custom-init.el")

In the xemacs_init.el file there is a require to tex, well actually to
(require 'tex-site) which does all the necessary initializing.

Now all my auctex variables, which I have configured via custom, work
without problems.


So first to the value  of the  TeX-style-path variable
,----
| `TeX-style-path' is a variable declared in Lisp.
|   -- loaded from "tex"
| 
| Value: ("/usr/local/var/auctex/" "/usr/local/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/auctex/style" "/home/oub/.emacs.d/auctex/auto" "/home/oub/.emacs.d/auctex/style" "auto" "style")
| 
| Documentation:
| List of directories to search for AUCTeX style files.
| Per default the list is built from the values of the variables
| `TeX-auto-global', `TeX-style-global', `TeX-auto-private',
| `TeX-style-private', `TeX-auto-local', and `TeX-style-local'.
`----

Now to the value  of TeX-style-private variable
,----
| 
| `TeX-style-private' is a variable declared in Lisp.
|   -- loaded from "tex"
| 
| Value: ("/home/oub/.emacs.d/auctex/style")
| 
| Documentation:
| List of directories containing hand-generated AUCTeX style files.
| 
| These correspond to the personal TeX macros.
`----

This is the standard setting. So since my style files do not sit in 
"/home/oub/.emacs.d/auctex/style" I change this variable (either by
substituting its value or my adding a new directory (it does not matter);
Say I add a directory via customize and its value is now:

,----
| `TeX-style-private' is a variable declared in Lisp.
|   -- loaded from "tex"
| 
| Value: ("/home/oub/.emacs.d/auctex/style" "/home/oub/tex/sty/auto")
| 
| Documentation:
| List of directories containing hand-generated AUCTeX style files.
| 
| These correspond to the personal TeX macros.
`----

However the value of TeX-style-path has *NOT* changed:
,----
| `TeX-style-path' is a variable declared in Lisp.
|   -- loaded from "tex"
| 
| Value: ("/usr/local/var/auctex/" "/usr/local/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/auctex/style" "/home/oub/.emacs.d/auctex/auto" "/home/oub/.emacs.d/auctex/style" "auto" "style")
| 
| Documentation:
| List of directories to search for AUCTeX style files.
| Per default the list is built from the values of the variables
| `TeX-auto-global', `TeX-style-global', `TeX-auto-private',
| `TeX-style-private', `TeX-auto-local', and `TeX-style-local'.
`----

I swear: I do the *same* steps in GNU Emacs (with different init files
in different directories) and the value of TeX-style-path changes.



   > What you should do is move the (require 'tex) late in init and put a
   > call to (load "/path/to/.xemacs/custom") *before* that.  (It actually
   > probably doesn't matter where you put the `load' call as long as it's
   > before the (require 'tex).)


Well the customization of all the other AUCTeX variable work, so your
advice sounds strange but I will try it out.

Result:

I does not help. Actually the problem on a practical level has an easy
fix, just customize directly the variable TeX-style-path variable.

I find it just curious that in xemacs the modification of the value of
TeX-style-private is not passed to TeX-style-path.