[Bug-AUCTeX] Re: TeX-command-master fails if fun 'file' is defined.

[Bjørn Haagensen]

In relation to my comment at the end, I should add that icicles does
check whether a function 'file' exists before defining it.

On 10/5/07, Bjørn Haagensen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If a function 'file' is defined running 'TeX-command-master' fails
> with the following backtrace:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments (lambda nil
> (interactive)) 2)
>   file(t t)
>   apply(file (t t))
>   TeX-command-expand("%l \"%(mode)\\input{%t}\"" TeX-master-file)
>   TeX-command("LaTeX" TeX-master-file nil)
>   TeX-command-master(nil)
>   call-interactively(TeX-command-master)
>
> To reproduce use '(defun file () (interactive))'. Function 'file' does
> not seem to be defined by auctex, so I think that if 'file' is used
> internaly, auctex should not pick up global definitions.
>
> My sys info:
> Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 (beta)
> GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of
> 2007-10-01 on samarium
> Auctex 11.83.
>
> PS! I ran into this bug while trying out icicles for emacs. It seems
> that the developer of icicles has seen this before, and in fact a user
> has reported the following to him.
>
> > What happens deep in the internals
> > of auctex when running TeX-command-expand that it runs over a list of
> > symbols checking to see whether they are variables or functions and
> > then taking appropriate action.  Unfortunately one of these happens to
> > be called `file' and it ought to be a variable - my lisp skills aren't
> > 100%, but it looks to me that this variable _is_ local to the auctex
> > function, but...  Anyway, it seems to be picking up icicles globally
> > defined function `file' instead and then going off the rails.
>
> Regards Bjørn
>