Re: [AUCTeX] Question on texmf.cnf ...

[Ivan Andrus]

On Sep 16, 2014, at 1:54 AM, Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Ivan,
> 
> 2014-09-16 4:34 GMT+02:00 Ivan Andrus <address@hidden>:
>> On Sep 15, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi Dieter,
>>> 
>>> 2014-09-15 20:04 GMT+02:00 Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza
>>> <address@hidden>:
>>>> Dear listmembers,
>>>> I have been using auctex for many years now, however, this time I stumbled
>>>> across an issue you (might ...) be able to give me an answer to.
>>>> 
>>>> I suffered from error messages like
>>>> 
>>>> "Error after last TeX File closed"
>>>> 
>>>> no usual information about the actual error. So, after some googling, I
>>>> modified texmf.cnf from
>>>> 
>>>> file_line_error_style = f
>>>> to
>>>> file_line_error_style = t
>>>> 
>>>> and the problem was gone. But, what is the impact of this measure, and, 
>>>> even
>>>> more, does changing this for a well functioning auctex in turn prevents 
>>>> other
>>>> programs from doing what I would expect them to do?
>>> 
>>> I don't think this will affect other programs, but if you don't want
>>> to edit `texmf.cfn' you can call latex with file line error style only
>>> within AUCTeX by adding the following code to your init file:
>>> 
>>>  (setq LaTeX-command-style '(("" "%(PDF)%(latex) -file-line-error
>>> %S%(PDFout)")))
>>> 
>>> Sorry if the previous line will be hard-wrapped.  In other words, you
>>> have to add "-file-line-error" after the "%(latex)" expander.  Note
>>> that the default value of LaTeX-command-style may change in future
>>> versions of AUCTeX.  See also
>>> http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/124259/31416
>> 
>> Could we just make -file-line-error the default?  It seems like it would make
>> so many people happy.  :)
> 
> I also think that this would be a good idea, however it has been
> reported MiKTeX's latex gives a less informative log when called with
> the file line error style, see
> http://sourceforge.net/p/miktex/bugs/2310/, so for MiKTeX users this
> could be a drawback.

That’s extremely unfortunate.  Maybe it could just be made into a “mode” like 
correlate source is right now.  Then it would at least be easier to turn on.

-Ivan