Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] TeX-electric-math not working?

[Marcus Frings]

Hi Mosè.

* Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> wrote:

> Are you saying that that error is thrown also when `TeX-electric-math'
> is set to nil?  This is the default, in this case every people using

No, I expressed myself in a unclear manner, I'm sorry. With the default
"nil" everything is fine. But what I wanted to say is that when I use
the basic configuration from the other posting and then set TeX-electric-math 
by M-x
customize-variable to the other two availabe values "\(...\)" or "$...$"
I get this error.

> AUCTeX from git would run into that bug.  The configuration you
> mentioned is really simple, it shouldn't interfere with
> `TeX-insert-dollar' behavior. Can you track down what wrong argument
> the error refers to?  Without a recipe to reproduce your error I can't
> debug it by myself.

I can very easily reproduce it with exactly these steps:

1) I open Emacs with no configuration files loaded: emacs -q

2) In the scratch buffer I paste

(setq TeX-data-directory "~/.emacs.d/sources/auctex")
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/sources/auctex")
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/sources/auctex/preview")
(require 'info)
(add-to-list 'Info-additional-directory-list "~/.emacs.d/sources/auctex/doc")
(load "auctex.el" nil t t)
(load "preview-latex.el" nil t t)
(setq TeX-macro-private '("~/texmf/"))
(setq TeX-auto-private '("~/.tex-el/"))
(setq TeX-auto-save t)
(setq TeX-save-query nil)
(setq TeX-parse-self t)
(setq-default TeX-master nil)

and do M-x evaluate-buffer.

3) Then I open a new file /tmp/test.tex with the following most simple
content:

\documentclass{scrartcl}

\begin{document}

\end{document}

%%% Local Variables:
%%% mode: latex
%%% TeX-master: t
%%% End:

4) I use M-x customize-variable TeX-electric-math and choose the $$
option from the menu:

TeX-electric-math is a variable defined in `tex.el'.
Its value is '("$" . "$")
Original value was nil

5) I try to type $ between "\begin{document} \end{document}" and get:

call-interactively: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, quote

6) With M-x toggle-debug-on-error I see:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p quote)
  TeX-insert-dollar(nil)
  call-interactively(TeX-insert-dollar nil nil)
  command-execute(TeX-insert-dollar)

That's all. If I revert to nil I can type the dollar sign again in my
test document.

My Emacs is emacs-snapshot_2%3a20130831-1_i386.deb and "git pull" for
AUC TeX says "Already up-to-date".

I'll try again now with an older Emacs package and a complete new
checkout of AUC TeX.

Best regards,
Marcus
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