Re: [AUCTeX] How to contribute using local copy of git repo

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

Here is a script to build auctex using Windows Linux Subsystem and preinstalled MikTeX and emacs in some custom directory (windows version)

#!/bin/sh
MYEMACSDIR=/mnt/c/ProgramData/emax64
PATH=$EMACSDIR/bin:$PATH
if [ ! -f Makefile ]; then
    # ./autogen.sh
    # Ghostcript shipped with MikTeX
    LATEX=`which latex.exe`
    PDFLATEX=`which pdflatex.exe`
    TEX=`which tex.exe`
    TEXMF=` kpsewhich.exe --expand-var '$TEXMF' | sed 's/{\([^,]*\),.*/\1/'`
    GS=mgs.exe
    export GS
    export TEX
    export LATEX
    export PDFLATEX
    ./configure --with-emacs=emacs.exe \
                --with-lispdir=$EMACSDIR/share/emacs/site-lisp \
                --without-texmf-dir
    exit
fi
make clean
# This will fail
make
# This retries and works
make

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 5:37 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <address@hidden> wrote:

Sorry, my fault: i just checked and I was doing a reversed diff -- the git repo has no further reference to xemacs. Great! I will have a look at both problems now. It is good to find a work-related justification to do some lisp again.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll+auctex@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks! It really looks simpler than I expected. Maybe it could be added to the READMe?

Regarding xemacs, I cloned git repo and diffed it against auctex official tarball. Elpa and auctex 's tarball basically coincide, but both are missing references to xemacs that still show up on the git repo master branch from savannah. Seems I am doing something wrong...

Juanjo

El mié., 18 abr. 2018 11:54, Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> escribió:

Hi Juanjo,

2018-04-17 18:26 GMT+02:00 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll+auctex@gmail.com>:
> Dear all,
>
> please excuse my ignorance. I am a long time user of AucTeX, and I love it
> enough to have written a 300 page book and 120 articles with it.

Great to hear this!

>  However,
> throughout the lifetime of the project and my migration back to Windows, I
> have found some minor problems that I do not want to solve using local hacks
> of your functions.
>
> These include:
>
> * TeX-error-summary is arbitrarily closed by AucTeX before compilation,
> causing a new window to be created. In general the philosophy of how this
> buffer is handled deviates from that of other buffers (Help, manuals,
> compilations, etc)
>
> * AucTeX fails to parse error messages on MikTeX due to various issues,
> including spurious ^M characters sometimes popping up in packages.
>
> I would like to debug and work on both locally and contribute patches for
> both issues, but I find it very obscure how to do this. For starters, the
> ELPA package of AucTeX does not seem to match the sources that are available
> on Git.

The ELPA package is built from the git repo, but indeed you can't use
the ELPA package to develop the package itselft.

> My ideal workflow would be:
> * Develop on top of my git branch
> * Let Emacs do the importing of that branch

Actually, the question has been already asked a few times before, here
you can find a quick & dirty solution:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex/2013-08/msg00005.html.  At
https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=auctex you can find the
information about how to clone the git repository.

> P.S.: As a side question, why does the ELPA package eliminate all references
> to xemacs? Is this done automatically?

I'm not sure what "references" you're referring to.  AUCTeX dropped
support for XEmacs in version 12.

I'm looking forward to seeing your contributions!

Bye,
Mosè