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11.88; texmathp is void

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From: Andreas Matthias <andreas.matthias <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-auctex <at> gnu.org
Subject: 11.88; texmathp is void
Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 18:15:58 +0200

   # cat foo.el
   (require 'package)
   (package-initialize)
   (load "auctex.el" nil t t)

   # emacs -Q -l foo.el

Loading a TeX file and typing " yields:

   Symbol's function definition is void: texmathp

This happens with Emacs 24.5.
It does not happen with Emacs 24.3.



Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.8)
 of 2015-05-06 on winky
Package: 11.88

current state:
==============
(setq
 AUCTeX-date "2014-10-29"
 window-system 'x
 LaTeX-version "2e"
 TeX-style-path '("~/.emacs.d/auctex"
		  "/home/andreas/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.88/style"
		  "/home/andreas/.emacs.d/auctex/auto"
		  "/home/andreas/.emacs.d/auctex/style" "auto" "style")
 TeX-auto-save nil
 TeX-parse-self nil
 TeX-master t
 TeX-command-list '(("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) %(extraopts) %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t"
		     TeX-run-TeX nil (plain-tex-mode ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode)
		     :help "Run plain TeX")
		    ("LaTeX" "%`%l%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil
		     (latex-mode doctex-mode) :help "Run LaTeX")
		    ("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %(extraopts) %t" TeX-run-compile nil
		     (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with Info output")
		    ("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo %(extraopts) --html %t"
		     TeX-run-compile nil (texinfo-mode) :help
		     "Run Makeinfo with HTML output")
		    ("AmSTeX" "%(PDF)amstex %(extraopts) %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t"
		     TeX-run-TeX nil (ams-tex-mode) :help "Run AMSTeX")
		    ("ConTeXt" "texexec --once --texutil %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t"
		     TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt once")
		    ("ConTeXt Full" "texexec %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX
		     nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt until completion")
		    ("BibTeX" "bibtex %s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil t :help "Run BibTeX")
		    ("Biber" "biber %s" TeX-run-Biber nil t :help "Run Biber")
		    ("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard-or-function t 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")
		    ("Xindy" "texindy %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help
		     "Run xindy to create index file")
		    ("Check" "lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode) :help
		     "Check LaTeX file for correctness")
		    ("ChkTeX" "chktex -v6 %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode) :help
		     "Check LaTeX file for common mistakes")
		    ("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")
		    )
 )

Message #8 received at 20515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Matthias <andreas.matthias <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20515: 11.88; texmathp is void
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 08:30:07 +0200

Andreas Matthias <andreas.matthias <at> gmail.com> writes:

Hi Andreas,

>    # cat foo.el
>    (require 'package)
>    (package-initialize)
>    (load "auctex.el" nil t t)
>
>    # emacs -Q -l foo.el
>
> Loading a TeX file and typing " yields:
>
>    Symbol's function definition is void: texmathp
>
> This happens with Emacs 24.5.
> It does not happen with Emacs 24.3.

When you use the ELPA package, you should not explicitly load auctex.el.

,----[ (info "(auctex)Installation") ]
| The simplest way of installing AUCTeX is by using the Emacs package
| manager integrated in Emacs 24 and greater (ELPA).  Simply do 'M-x
| package-list-packages RET', mark the auctex package for installation
| with 'i', and hit 'x' to execute the installation procedure.  That's
| all.
| 
|    The remainder of this section is about installing AUCTeX from a
| release tarball or from a checkout of the AUCTeX repository.
`----

With "That's all." and the next sentence, I wanted to make clear that
anything below (including loading auctex/preview-latex explicitly) does
not apply if you use the ELPA package.

By the way: I see you use the ELPA version, but why do you use such an
outdated version?  The current one is 11.88.5.

So could you please remove the explicit load, upgrade you auctex
package, and report back if the error is gone then?

Bye,
Tassilo

Message #11 received at 20515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Matthias <andreas.matthias <at> gmail.com>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20515: 11.88; texmathp is void
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 15:54:05 +0200

Hi Tassilo,

Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Andreas Matthias <andreas.matthias <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>    (load "auctex.el" nil t t)

> When you use the ELPA package, you should not explicitly load auctex.el.

Oh, I see.

Concerning 11.88, however, this did not sort out my problem.

> By the way: I see you use the ELPA version, but why do you use such an
> outdated version?  The current one is 11.88.5.

Good question. I not very familiar with ELPA and thought that packages
would be highlighted/marked more noticeably if they are outdated. So
I just skimmed through the list and thought that I had installed
the most recent version...

But now I have really installed the most recent one. And the problem
is solved.

Thanks a lot for your help.


Ciao
Andreas

Message #16 received at 20515-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Matthias <andreas.matthias <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20515-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20515: 11.88; texmathp is void
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 16:17:12 +0200

Andreas Matthias <andreas.matthias <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> By the way: I see you use the ELPA version, but why do you use such an
>> outdated version?  The current one is 11.88.5.
>
> Good question. I not very familiar with ELPA and thought that packages
> would be highlighted/marked more noticeably if they are outdated.  So
> I just skimmed through the list and thought that I had installed the
> most recent version...

I think it shows the new versions on top.  But basically, when you do `u
x' in the packages buffer, it'll just do the right thing, e.g., upgrade
all installed packages that have newer versions.

> But now I have really installed the most recent one.  And the problem
> is solved.

Perfect.  BTW, using just the ELPA package should just work.  But there
have been some hiccups when you had installed both an ELPA version plus
some other version, e.g., via your package manager or some built-in
version (some emacs distributions bundle auctex).  Well, but that
doesn't seem to be the case here.

Bye,
Tassilo

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