Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 201957
Autoload Instructions for the emacs-auctex package
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:40 EST
Description of problem: In the package emacs-auctex-11.83 the README file says: The installation routine tries to make the modes provided by AUCTeX the default for all supported file types. If this does not happen in your case, add (load "auctex.el" nil t t) but auctex.el is not part of the package. I think it would be a good idea to say (something like) somewhere: Add the following to your .emacs file to autoload auctex: (setq load-path (append load-path '("/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex"))) (autoload 'TeX-load-hack "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site") (TeX-load-hack) so that the file don't have to be permanently/manually loaded. Also I still don't know how to autoload the preview part. Nick *** Emacs Mode for GDB *** http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrobnickrob/
Hi Nick, I'm confused by your report - if you install the emacs-auctex package from FE, you shouldn't need to add anything to your .emacs at all - it should just work. Are you just pointing out a documentation problem in the README file, or are you also having a problem getting auctex and preview to work?
I was trying to use it with Emacs 22 that I've checked out from Savannah which doesn't have /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp in it's load-path. Sorry for the noise.
Hi Nick - OK, no problem, thanks for closing the bug. You've probably found the files already, but if you look in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d there are the startup files for auctex and preview. I also suspect you may need to re-byte compile the files - I am not sure that the lisp interpreter in emacs maintains binary compatibility for compiled lisp files between versions. Good luck.