Subject: bug#22200: 11.89; Incompatibility with TeX-file-line-error and preview-LaTeX-command-replacements

From: Ivan Andrus <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 19:46:11 -0700

I started with

$EMACS -Q -L ~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.89/ -l auctex-autoloads ./bug.tex

where bug.tex contains

\documentclass{article}
\title{Bug example}
\begin{document}
Consider a multi-set of pairs $(x_{i},y_{i})$.
\end{document}
% Local Variables:
% preview-LaTeX-command-replacements: (preview-LaTeX-disable-pdfoutput)
% End:

I allow setting the file local variables and then hit C-c C-p C-p to
turn previews on.  The preview process hangs with output below.  It's
waiting for input that can never come.  This is due to -file-line-error
being after "\pdfoutput=0 " on the command line.

Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `_region_' with ``pdflatex "\pdfoutput=0 "   -file-line-error   "\nonstopmode\nofiles\PassOptionsToPackage{active,tightpage,auctex}{preview}\AtBeginDocument{\ifx\ifPreview\undefined\RequirePackage[displaymath,floats,graphics,textmath,sections,footnotes]{preview}[2004/11/05]\fi}" "\input" _region_.tex''
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2015/10/01> patch level 2
Babel <3.9m> and hyphenation patterns for 79 languages loaded.

! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
...                                              
                                                  
<*> \pdfoutput=0  -
                   file-line-error \nonstopmode\nofiles\PassOptionsToPackage...

? 

As it turns out my setup no longer needs to set
`preview-LaTeX-command-replacements', but if someone does need it they
won't be able to use it with `TeX-file-line-error'.  Moreover, the
problem is quite confusing and took me a while to figure out.

-Ivan

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 25.1.50.4 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.0.0, NS appkit-1404.13 Version 10.11.1 (Build 15B42))
of 2015-12-06
Package: 11.89

Run buffer contents:

Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `bug' with ``pdflatex -ini -interaction=nonstopmode "&pdflatex" prv_bug.ini  "\pdfoutput=0 "   -file-line-error   "\nonstopmode\nofiles\PassOptionsToPackage{active,tightpage,auctex}{preview}\AtBeginDocument{\ifx\ifPreview\undefined\RequirePackage[displaymath,floats,graphics,textmath,sections,footnotes]{preview}[2004/11/05]\fi}" "\input" bug.tex''
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015) (INITEX)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./prv_bug.ini
LaTeX2e <2015/10/01> patch level 2
Babel <3.9m> and hyphenation patterns for 79 languages loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/carlisle/mylatex.ltx)
(/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/.tex File ignored))

! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
...                                              
                                                  
<*> &pdflatex prv_bug.ini \pdfoutput=0  -
                                         file-line-error \nonstopmode\nofile...

No auxiliary output files.

(./bug.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)
Overfull \hbox (20.0pt too wide) detected at line 289
[]
[1]) )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Beginning to dump on file prv_bug.fmt
(preloaded format=prv_bug 2015.12.17)
7180 strings of total length 118071
52641 memory locations dumped; current usage is 227&50199
3830 multiletter control sequences
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\font\tenln=line10
\font\tenlnw=linew10
\font\tencirc=lcircle10
\font\tencircw=lcirclew10
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/5=cmr5
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/7=cmr7
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\font\OML/cmm/m/it/7=cmmi7
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/10=cmmi10
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1141 hyphenation exceptions
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0 words of pdfTeX memory
0 indirect objects
Output written on prv_bug.dvi (1 page, 212 bytes).
Transcript written on prv_bug.log.

TeX Output exited abnormally with code 1 at Thu Dec 17 19:30:38
Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `_region_' with ``pdflatex "\pdfoutput=0 "   -file-line-error   "\nonstopmode\nofiles\PassOptionsToPackage{active,tightpage,auctex}{preview}\AtBeginDocument{\ifx\ifPreview\undefined\RequirePackage[displaymath,floats,graphics,textmath,sections,footnotes]{preview}[2004/11/05]\fi}" "\input" _region_.tex''
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2015/10/01> patch level 2
Babel <3.9m> and hyphenation patterns for 79 languages loaded.

! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
...                                              
                                                  
<*> \pdfoutput=0  -
                   file-line-error \nonstopmode\nofiles\PassOptionsToPackage...

? 

current state:
==============
(setq
AUCTeX-version "11.89"
LaTeX-command-style '(("" "%(PDF)%(latex) %(file-line-error) %(extraopts) %S%(PDFout)"))
image-types '(svg imagemagick png gif tiff jpeg xpm xbm pbm)
preview-image-type 'png
preview-image-creators '((dvipng (open preview-gs-open preview-dvipng-process-setup) (place preview-gs-place)
			   (close preview-dvipng-close))
			  (png (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place) (close preview-gs-close))
			  (jpeg (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place) (close preview-gs-close))
			  (pnm (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place) (close preview-gs-close))
			  (tiff (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place) (close preview-gs-close)))
preview-dvipng-image-type 'png
preview-dvipng-command "dvipng -picky -noghostscript %d -o \"%m/prev%%03d.png\""
preview-pdf2dsc-command "pdf2dsc %s.pdf %m/preview.dsc"
preview-gs-command "/Library/TeX/texbin/rungs"
preview-gs-options '("-q" "-dDELAYSAFER" "-dNOPAUSE" "-DNOPLATFONTS" "-dPrinted" "-dTextAlphaBits=4" "-dGraphicsAlphaBits=4")
preview-gs-image-type-alist '((png png "-sDEVICE=png16m") (dvipng png "-sDEVICE=png16m") (jpeg jpeg "-sDEVICE=jpeg")
			       (pnm pbm "-sDEVICE=pnmraw") (tiff tiff "-sDEVICE=tiff12nc"))
preview-fast-conversion t
preview-prefer-TeX-bb nil
preview-dvips-command "dvips -Pwww -i -E %d -o %m/preview.000"
preview-fast-dvips-command "dvips -Pwww %d -o %m/preview.ps"
preview-scale-function 'preview-scale-from-face
preview-LaTeX-command '("%`%l \"\\nonstopmode\\nofiles\\PassOptionsToPackage{" ("," . preview-required-option-list)
			 "}{preview}\\AtBeginDocument{\\ifx\\ifPreview\\undefined" preview-default-preamble "\\fi}\"%' %t")
preview-required-option-list '("active" "tightpage" "auctex" (preview-preserve-counters "counters"))
preview-preserve-counters nil
preview-default-option-list '("displaymath" "floats" "graphics" "textmath" "sections" "footnotes")
preview-default-preamble '("\\RequirePackage[" ("," . preview-default-option-list) "]{preview}[2004/11/05]")
preview-LaTeX-command-replacements '(preview-LaTeX-disable-pdfoutput)
preview-dump-replacements '(preview-LaTeX-command-replacements
			     ("\\`\\([^ ]+\\)\\(\\( +-\\([^ \\\\\"]\\|\\\\\\.\\|\"[^\"]*\"\\)*\\)*\\)\\(.*\\)\\'"
			      "\\1 -ini -interaction=nonstopmode \"&\\1\" " preview-format-name ".ini \\5")
			     )
preview-undump-replacements '(("\\`\\([^ ]+\\) .*? \"\\\\input\" \\(.*\\)\\'" "\\1 -interaction=nonstopmode \"&"
				preview-format-name "\" \\2")
			       )
preview-auto-cache-preamble 'ask
preview-TeX-style-dir "/Users/iandrus/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.89/latex"
)

Output from running `/Library/TeX/texbin/rungs -h':
GPL Ghostscript 9.16 (2015-03-30)
Copyright (C) 2015 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
-dNOPAUSE           no pause after page   | -q       `quiet', fewer messages
-g<width>x<height>  page size in pixels   | -r<res>  pixels/inch resolution
-sDEVICE=<devname>  select device         | -dBATCH  exit after last file
-sOutputFile=<file> select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe,
                                         embed %d or %ld for page #
Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PostScriptLevel3 PDF
Default output device: x11alpha
Available devices:
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Search path:
   /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/Init :
   /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/lib :
   /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/Font :
   /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts :
   /usr/local/share/fonts/default/ghostscript :
   /usr/local/share/fonts/default/Type1 :
   /usr/local/share/fonts/default/TrueType : /usr/lib/DPS/outline/base :
   /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 : /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType :
   /usr/share/cups/fonts
For more information, see /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/doc/Use.htm.
Please report bugs to bugs.ghostscript.com.