[Bug-AUCTeX] Re: 11.85; Problem in TeX-next-error with MiKTeX 2.8

[David Kastrup]

Trevor Spiteri <address@hidden> writes:

> If I have a tex file with an error, TeX-next-error will open a buffer
> named "MiKTeX 2.8" and go to that buffer instead of taking me to the
> error in the file.
>
> I used a file named c:\Users\Trevor\Home\delme\a.tex with the contents
> (containing an error):
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> \nocommand
> \end{document}
>
> The output buffer has the following contents:
>
> Running `LaTeX' on `a' with ``pdflatex  -interaction=nonstopmode
> "\input" "a.tex"''
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (MiKTeX 2.8)
> entering extended mode
> LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
> nohyphenation, german, ngerman, german-x-2009-06-19,
> ngerman-x-2009-06-19, french, loaded.
> (c:\Users\Trevor\Home\delme\a.tex
> ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
> Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
> ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\base\size10.clo"))

The directory "Program Files (x86)" has a file name that directly
clashes with the file opening message format of TeX.

I recommend that you try seeing whether MikTeX allows you to set the
-file-line-error option globally.  That picks a different error message
format that might make TeX's diagnostic messages be less likely confused
with your directory names.

-- 
David Kastrup