bug#55028: closed (12.3; LaTeX-shortvrb-chars)

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regarding 12.3; LaTeX-shortvrb-chars
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> 12.3; LaTeX-shortvrb-chars
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> Tue, 19 Apr 2022 17:36:10 -0400
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> With Aquamacs on Monterey when I open a latex file, it does not open but
> reports: "Symbol’s value as variable is void: LaTeX-shortvrb-chars" .
> The file opens on second attempt, though.  Minimal example:
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> \documentclass[11pt]{memoir}
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> \begin{document}
> Hello!
> \end{document}
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> Emacs  : Aquamacs 3.6  GNU Emacs 25.3.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin20.6.0, NS 
> appkit-2022.60 Version 11.6 (Build 20G165))
> dated 2021-12-24 rev. 04752ba87a8f3f0677e904e833a1cef8fe38897a
> Package: 12.3
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> current state:
> ==============
> (setq
> AUCTeX-date "2020-10-18"
> window-system 'ns
> LaTeX-version "2e"
> TeX-style-path 
> '("/Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/aquamacs/edit-modes/auctex/style"
>                                   "/Users/gacs/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs 
> Emacs/Packages/auctex/auto"
>                                   "/Users/gacs/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs 
> Emacs/Packages/auctex/style" "auto" "style")
> TeX-auto-save nil
> TeX-parse-self t
> TeX-master t
> TeX-command-list '(("pdfLaTeX" "%`pdflatex --file-line-error --synctex=1 
> %(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (latex-mode doctex-mode) help "Run pdfLaTeX")
>                                         ("LaTeX" "%`latex --file-line-error 
> --synctex=1 %(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (latex-mode doctex-mode) :help "Run 
> LaTeX")
>                                         ("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) 
> %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (plain-tex-mode texinfo-mode 
> ams-tex-mode) :help "Run plain TeX")
>                                         ("XeLaTeX_SyncteX" "%`xelatex 
> --file-line-error --synctex=1%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (latex-mode 
> doctex-mode) :help "Run XeLaTeX")
>                                         ("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)%' %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 %s" TeX-run-BibTeX 
> nil t :help "Run BibTeX") ("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard-or-function nil 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")
>                                         ("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")
>                                         ("Jump to PDF" "%V" 
> TeX-run-discard-or-function nil t :help "Run Viewer"))
> )
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> Re: bug#55028: 12.3; LaTeX-shortvrb-chars
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> Thu, 21 Apr 2022 10:44:27 +0200
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> Hi Peter,
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> in future, please keep NUMBER@debbugs.gnu.org in CC, thanks.
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> Peter Gacs <peter.gacs@gmail.com> writes:
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> > thank you for the helpful advice.  It turns out that the Auctex coming
> > with the (newest) Aquamacs is a rather old version.  I updated it to
> > the newest one, and the problem disappeared.
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> Sounds good.
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> > One trivial problem with the old Auctex, possibly also with the new
> > one, was also that the variable TeX-parse-self did not have the
> > default value nil as claimed.  But now I can set it to value t anyway.
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> Again, I don't know how Aquamacs works but I think this variable is set
> by Aquamacs in auctex-config.el[1].  But it is good to have it set to t.
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> I'm closing this report.
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> Best, Arash
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> Footnotes:
> [1]  
> https://github.com/aquamacs-emacs/aquamacs-emacs/blob/8a43ebbdcf65087b519c7f038a41302c9225ce48/aquamacs/src/site-lisp/edit-modes/auctex-config.el#L61-L62
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