[AUCTeX] Disappearing Reftex

[Alan Ristow]

Hi,

I'm not entirely certain that this is the correct forum to ask this 
question, but I can't find one that is Reftex-specific and thought I 
might have more luck here than in a more general Emacs group. If I 
should take my query elsewhere please let me know and I'll do so gladly....

Reftex keeps unloading on me and I'm not sure why. I thought I'd tracked 
the problem to a bad command in my .emacs file and everything seemed 
fine after I fixed it. However, after working in Emacs for a little 
while today I hit C-c [ and the minibuffer informed me that key binding 
is undefined. Sure enough, the Ref menu had disappeared as well. After a 
bit more troubleshooting today I noticed quite by accident that the Ref 
menu disappears within 10 seconds or so of startup, and does so at 
exactly the same time the "GNU Emacs" buffer that serves as a welcome 
screen unloads. The first line of my .emacs file is (setq debug-on-error 
t), but it doesn't pop up anything up when Reftex unloads. As a relative 
newbie to Emacs and AUCTeX I've exhausted my ability to debug this any 
further myself.

I should note that I have installed gnuclient on my system and only have 
this problem when I double-click on my .tex file to open it with Emacs. 
If I open Emacs first, then open the file via C-x C-f the Ref menu (and 
the rest of Reftex) sticks around. However, I'm not sure if this is 
truly related to gnuclient, as when I comment out the gnuclient-related 
commands from .emacs file I can no longer open the file by 
double-clicking. In this case, since the "GNU Emacs" buffer unloads the 
moment I hit C-x C-f it is gone before Reftex ever loads and they never 
have the opportunity to unload together.

I haven't been able to find any reports of problems between Reftex and 
gnuclient, and since the problem occurs whether or not I touch the menus 
I don't think it's related to the known menu bug (at least as I 
understand it, which could be wrong).

My .emacs file follows -- is there anything obvious that could lead to this?

Thanks,

Alan



(setq debug-on-error t)

;; set frame geometry
(set-frame-height (selected-frame) 42)
(set-frame-width (selected-frame) 80)

;; start gnuserv on Windows
(if (or (eq window-system 'w32) (eq window-system 'win32))
    (progn
      (require 'gnuserv)
      (setq server-done-function 'bury-buffer
      gnuserv-frame (car (frame-list)))
      (gnuserv-start)
      ;;; open buffer in existing frame instead of creating new one...
      (setq gnuserv-frame (selected-frame))
      (message "gnuserv started.")))

;; set up for MiKTeX
(require 'tex-mik)
(setq TeX-auto-save t)
(setq TeX-parse-self t)
(setq-default TeX-master nil)

(defun my-latex-setup ()
  "Customize up my LaTeX environment."
  (setq default-input-method "TeX"))

(autoload 'turn-on-reftex "reftex" "RefTeX Minor Mode" nil)
(autoload 'reftex-citation "reftex-cite" "Make Citation" nil)
(autoload 'reftex-index-phrase-mode "reftex-index" "Phrase Mode" t)
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex) ; with AUCTeX LaTeX mode
(add-hook 'latex-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex)
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'my-latex-setup)
(add-hook 'latex-mode-hook 'my-latex-setup)
(setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t)

(setq reftex-bibpath-environment-variables
      '("E:/localtexmf/bibtex/bib//"))

(setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell")

(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(TeX-command-list (quote (("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) %S%(PDFout) 
\"%(mode)\\input %t\"" TeX-run-TeX nil (plain-tex-mode texinfo-mode 
ams-tex-mode) :help "Run plain TeX") ("LaTeX" "%l 
\"%(mode)\\input{%t}\"" TeX-run-TeX nil (latex-mode doctex-mode) :help 
"Run LaTeX") ("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %t" TeX-run-compile nil 
(texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with Info output") ("Makeinfo HTML" 
"makeinfo --html %t" TeX-run-compile nil (texinfo-mode) :help "Run 
Makeinfo with HTML output") ("AmSTeX" "%(PDF)amstex %S%(PDFout) 
\"%(mode)\\input %t\"" TeX-run-TeX nil (ams-tex-mode) :help "Run 
AMSTeX") ("ConTeXt" "texexec --once --texutil %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX 
nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt once") ("ConTeXt Full" "texexec 
%(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt until 
completion") ("BibTeX" "bibtex --min-crossrefs=100 %s" TeX-run-BibTeX 
nil t :help "Run BibTeX") ("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard t t :help "Run 
Viewer") ("Print" "%p" TeX-run-command t t :help "Print the file") 
("Queue" "%q" TeX-run-background nil t :help "View the printer queue" 
:visible TeX-queue-command) ("File" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " 
TeX-run-command t t :help "Generate PostScript file") ("PS2PDF" 
"gswin32c.exe -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -r600 
-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -sOutputFile=%s.pdf -c save pop -f %f && start 
%s.pdf" TeX-run-command t t :help "Generate PDF file") ("Index" 
"makeindex %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help "Create index file") ("Check" 
"lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode) :help "Check LaTeX file 
for correctness") ("Spell" "(TeX-ispell-document \"\")" TeX-run-function 
nil t :help "Spell-check the document") ("Clean" "TeX-clean" 
TeX-run-function nil t :help "Delete generated intermediate files") 
("Clean All" "(TeX-clean t)" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Delete 
generated intermediate and output files") ("Other" "" TeX-run-command t 
t :help "Run an arbitrary command"))))
 '(TeX-source-specials-mode t)
 '(auto-revert-interval 2)
 '(global-auto-revert-mode t)
 '(reftex-texpath-environment-variables (quote (".//" 
"E:/localtexmf/tex//" "E:/texmf/tex//")))
 '(tex-bibtex-command "bibtex --min-crossrefs=100")
 '(transient-mark-mode t))
(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 )