Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] Automatic Extraction of New Things

[Jobst Hoffmann]

Am Samstag, den 17.09.2005, 13:17 +0200 schrieb Ralf Angeli:
> [Redirecting to the list.]
> 
> * Jobst Hoffmann (2005-09-17) writes:
> 
> > Am Freitag, den 16.09.2005, 23:29 +0200 schrieb Ralf Angeli:
> >> 
> >> Did you apply `TeX-auto-generate' on texpower.sty as well?  The
> >> version I used for the test was "2005/04/08 v0.2".
> >> 
> > This is what I've just done:
> > 1) started XEmacs
> > 2) M-x TeX-auto-generate
> > 3) TeX file or
> > directory: 
> > /opt/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/tex/latex/texpower/texpower.sty
> > 4) AUTO lisp directory: ~/
> > I attach the resulting texpower.el with 216(!) lines
> >
> > My texpower.sty has the same version number and is unchanged from the
> > distribution.
> 
> Did you customize `TeX-auto-parse-length'?  Could you repeat your test
Yes, parse-legth=99999
> without your customizations?  To do that start XEmacs with
> xemacs -q -no-site-file
> , copy the things you need to activate AUCTeX into the *scratch*
> buffer if it is not activated by default, e.g.
> (require 'tex-site)
> and type `M-x eval-buffer RET RET'.  Then try the `TeX-auto-generate'
> procedure again.
Now the results are correct, thank you for your effort!

Is it a general advice for auto extraction to work with a clean (x)emacs
or should I look at my setup to fix a bug (it might be cumbersome)?
> 
> > Another question: I observed that several auctex style files with the
> > same name are loaded from several directories (the distribution
> > directory, the site defined global directory and my local directory) if
> > they exist. Is this the correct desired functionality? I've expected
> > another behaviour:
> > If a style file exists in the local directory, it is loaded and there is
> > no further search in the global and the distribution directory,
> > otherwise the search goes on until a style file is found or not.
> 
> AFAICT the current behavior is intended.  We might want to make the
> behavior more controlable nevertheless.  IIRC Frank reported some
> problems with definitions from automatically generated style files
> overwriting those of hand-crafted ones.
> 
I think it would be nice to have a better control over the style files.
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