Re: [AUCTeX] including source specials in auctex 11.86

[Ralf Angeli]

* Rainer Thiel (2010-03-27) writes:

> That was indeed part of the problem.  But quite a lot of other things
> seem to be broken in auctex 11.86, too.  To name only two, 1.
> TeX-source-specials-tex-flags is "-src-specials" by default (while it
> should be "--src-specials", of course).

AUCTeX has always used "-src-specials", so this is nothing which changed
between 11.85 and 11.86.  And with TeX Live this is supported:

$ latex --help | grep src
-src-specials           insert source specials into the DVI file
-src-specials=WHERE     insert source specials in certain places of
$ latex --version
pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
[...]

> 2. Multi part latex documents
> are not supported anymore, or at least not the same way as before.

If this does not work as before, it would be a bug.  Please make a
proper bug report including information about what you did, what
happened and what you expected to happen.  Using `M-x
TeX-submit-bug-report <RET>' can help you with that and automatically
includes helpful information in the report.

> I hate to say it, especially because I have an idea of how much work
> you and many others must have put into it, but after three afternoons
> of testing with the configuration of auctex 11.86 it seems to me that
> at least people who use auctex under Windows should downgrade to v.
> 11.85 until 11.86 is stable and there is a proper documentation on how
> to get the same results as before with the new version.  Building an
> .emacs init file grown in years from scratch is a painful and time
> consuming process that should not be expected from a user who updates
> auctex.

I tried hard to make that transition as easy as possible.  There even is
an alias for the old TeX Source Specials mode.  I don't know why it did
not work out so well in your case.  The only thing I saw in the
discussion is that AUCTeX picked SyncTeX per default over Source
Specials.  Since SyncTeX is the preferrable option (as mentioned before)
I'd consider this a feature.  (Support for SyncTeX is obviously a new
feature introduced with 11.86.)

Anyway, if you could provide proper bug reports as mentioned above, then
we can fix the things you are having trouble with.

-- 
Ralf