Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.85; TeX-parse-self is not active

[Harald von Aschen]

At 18:24 10.09.2008, you wrote:

> Consider the file "test.tex" whose contents are
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{amsmath}

[...]

> If, with the cursor right after the word "See", I type C-c C-) and
> then I choose the "e" option, then I get "~(\ref{eq:a})" but since
> this file uses the amsmath package, what I sould get is
> "~\eqref{eq:a}". What might be wrong with my intallation? Two notes:

[...]

> 2) If I do C-c C-n, then yes, I do get "~\eqref{eq:a}".

Because I remember I have encountered the same 
problem (and this was most annoying after 
starting with AucTex as a new user), my ideas 
behind this are a misunderstanding in the documentation:

a) Making a new document, entering the packages and then

saving

and then using reftex seems that parsing was not done.

See AucTeX documentation chapter 9 "Automatic Parsing" (pg. 54?):

    (setq TeX-auto-save t) ; Enable parse on save.

But below this:

    TeX-auto-save [User Option]
    Automatically save style information when saving the buffer.

For me, it seems that the variable set with setq 
is the same as the variable below and does not "enable parse on save".

After closing file and reopening or saying C-c C-n the file is parsed.
I suppose, José, all is working fine after closing and reopening the file?

Ralf: You can see this behaviour also with 
language packs (babel) and quotation marks or 
other packages supported by AucTeX.

But for me it is not a bug it is by design and it 
is totally correct; this means: Parsing is not 
done for each word I'm typing, parsing is not 
done "automagically" on save, but only manually or by reopening file.

Parsing when saving isn't very valuable if you 
have in mind big documents which have to be 
reparsed every saving process (e.g. master file 
is unchanged and only subdoc is changing)... (And 
I'm "latexing" sometimes in very short intervals.)

My proposal for documentation: Perhaps someone 
can state this explicitly in the documentation 
that parsing for a new document has to be done 
manually for the first time? (And fixing the different defs for TeX-auto-save.)

And "TeX-parse-self" set to true only means that 
the file will be parsed during opening, this 
means a new file will not be parsed until it is closed and reopened.

If I'm not correct here I'm very, very sorry.

Best regards and thank you for this great AucTeX! Harald