Re: orgmode and auctex

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au> wrote:

> Yes, I get this response when I open a .org file. I only want it when I open a .tex file.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> 

I just reproduced it (no idea why I wasn't able to reproduce it earlier). Stay tuned.

Nick

> On 9 February 2012 21:08, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> 
>     Thomas Alexander Gerds <tagteam@sund.ku.dk> wrote:
>    
>     >
>     > Hi Chris,
>     >
>     > maybe I cannot follow exactly what you are trying to do, but when I
>     > start emacs -q and evaluate (setq-default TeX-master nil) and then open
>     > a new file test.tex, then I get the same prompt "Master file:".
>     >
>    
>     I think Chris means that he gets the prompt when he opens a .org file.
>     I couldn't reproduce that behavior when I tried it but I have not tried
>     it again yet.
>    
>     Nick
> 
>     > so maybe, if you do not want to get prompted, you could try setting
>     > (setq-default TeX-master t).
>     >
>     > Cheers
>     > Tomy
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au> writes:
>     >
>     > > OK so using the setq-default inside a hook is probably not a good
>     > > idea.
>     > > But I can reliably reproduce this problem, I'm surprised you couldn't.
>     > > If
>     > > I start emacs using emacs -Q and open an org file everything is fine.
>     > > If I
>     > > then evaluate this
>     > >
>     > > (setq-default TeX-master nil)
>     > >
>     > > (defun org-mode-reftex-setup ()
>     > >   (load-library "reftex")
>     > >   (and (buffer-file-name)
>     > >        (file-exists-p (buffer-file-name))
>     > >        (reftex-parse-all))
>     > >   (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c )") 'reftex-citation))
>     > > (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'org-mode-reftex-setup)
>     > >
>     > > and try to open an org file I get prompted "Master file: ~/".  I'm
>     > > running
>     > > Ubuntu 11.10 and the emacs-snapshot package: GNU Emacs 23.3.1
>     > > (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.5), latest org pulled from git
>     > > today.
>     > > Is there any more information I could provide to help diagnose this
>     > > problem?
>     > >
>     > > Cheers
>     > > Chris.
>     > >
>     > > On 7 February 2012 19:15, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
>     > >
>     > >> Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au> wrote:
>     > >>
>     > >> > I've had a small problem with orgmode and auctex.  Follwing the
>     > > auctex
>     > >> quickstart I added the
>     > >> > following to my .emacs
>     > >> >
>     > >> > (setq-default TeX-master nil)
>     > >> >
>     > >> > and then from the orgmode FAQ to setup reftex in orgmode I added
>     > > the
>     > >> following
>     > >> >
>     > >> > (defun org-mode-reftex-setup ()
>     > >> >   (load-library "reftex")
>     > >> >   (and (buffer-file-name)
>     > >> >        (file-exists-p (buffer-file-name))
>     > >> >        (reftex-parse-all))
>     > >> >   (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c )") 'reftex-citation))
>     > >> > (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'org-mode-reftex-setup)
>     > >> >
>     > >> > With both of these, whenever I opened an org file I was asked to
>     > > name
>     > >> the master file.  If I comment
>     > >> > out the setq-default I don't get the behaviour I would like with
>     > >> mulitfile tex files.  My solution
>     > >> > was to change
>     > >> >
>     > >> > (setq-default TeX-master nil)
>     > >> >
>     > >> > to
>     > >> >
>     > >> > (add-hook 'TeX-mode-hook (lambda ()
>     > >> >                (setq-default TeX-master nil)))
>     > >> >
>     > >> > I then appear to get the behaviour I desire.  Is this a good way
>     > > to do
>     > >> this?  If so I might add it
>     > >> > to the FAQ.
>     > >> >
>     > >>
>     > >> Probably not. setq-default sets the default value of the variable
>     > >> whereas the hook is supposed to set the local value in order to
>     > > override
>     > >> the default value: setting the default value from a hook seems
>     > > backwards
>     > >> to me.
>     > >>
>     > >> Actually, I added the above code (*without* the TeX-mode-hook mod)
>     > > to my
>     > >> minimal .emacs and opening org files does not generate any
>     > > questions. Are
>     > >> you sure you have diagnosed the problem correctly?
>     > >>
>     > >> Nick
>     > >>
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