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Emacs 23.1 problem with "tex-bibtex-file" command

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From: 人在江湖 <wodejianghu <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Emacs 23.1 problem with "tex-bibtex-file" command
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:51:13 -0800

Below is the bug report created by using "M-x report-emacs-bug", just
that I could not send it successfully.

To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1; problem with "tex-bibtex-file" command
--text follows this line--
In Emacs LaTeX mode, whenever I tried to invoke bibtex command on the
current file by using C-c Tab (equivalent to issusing command
"tex-bibtex-file"), emacs changed the current directory to the home
directory and thus not being able to find the corresponding *.aux
file.

Note that I was actually using Emacs LaTeX mode, not AucTeX mode.



In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.3)
 of 2009-11-10 on vernadsky, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10604000
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu'
'--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib'
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib'
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes'
'--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim'
'--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars'
'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu'
'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> M-x
<help-echo> r <help-echo> e <help-echo> p <help-echo>
o <help-echo> r <help-echo> t <help-echo> - <help-echo>
e <help-echo> m <help-echo> a <help-echo> c <help-echo>
s <help-echo> <tab> <help-echo> <return>

Recent messages:
No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default...
Loading 00debian-vars...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...
Loading debian-ispell...
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el (source)...done
Loading debian-ispell...done
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...done
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
/usr/bin/mail is not an executable.  Setting mail-interactive to t.

Message #8 received at 5562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Roland Winkler <roland.winkler <at> physik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc: wodejianghu <at> gmail.com, 5562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 23.1 problem with "tex-bibtex-file" command
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:43:08 -0500

Hi Roland, could you take a look at this bug report?  I'm not sure there
is enough info to reproduce, but I'm not familiar with bibtex-mode.
Thanks.

> In Emacs LaTeX mode, whenever I tried to invoke bibtex command on the
> current file by using C-c Tab (equivalent to issusing command
> "tex-bibtex-file"), emacs changed the current directory to the home
> directory and thus not being able to find the corresponding *.aux
> file.
>
> Note that I was actually using Emacs LaTeX mode, not AucTeX mode.

Message #11 received at 5562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Roland Winkler" <Roland.Winkler <at> physik.uni-erlangen.de>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: wodejianghu <at> gmail.com, 5562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 23.1 problem with "tex-bibtex-file" command
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:46:36 -0600

On Sat Feb 13 2010 Chong Yidong wrote:
> Hi Roland, could you take a look at this bug report?  I'm not sure there
> is enough info to reproduce, but I'm not familiar with bibtex-mode.
> Thanks.
> 
> > In Emacs LaTeX mode, whenever I tried to invoke bibtex command on the
> > current file by using C-c Tab (equivalent to issusing command
> > "tex-bibtex-file"), emacs changed the current directory to the home
> > directory and thus not being able to find the corresponding *.aux
> > file.
> >
> > Note that I was actually using Emacs LaTeX mode, not AucTeX mode.

I can try to take a look. But it appears to me that this is not
related with bibtex-mode but latex-mode. bibtex-mode is for managing
a BibTeX database. latex-mode, on the other hand, calls the external
bibtex command (much the same way it also calls the (la)tex command.
I am not familiar with latex-mode.

Roland

Message #14 received at 5562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Roland Winkler" <Roland.Winkler <at> physik.uni-erlangen.de>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: wodejianghu <at> gmail.com, 5562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 23.1 problem with "tex-bibtex-file" command
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:04:01 -0600

On Sat Feb 13 2010 Chong Yidong wrote:
> Hi Roland, could you take a look at this bug report?  I'm not sure there
> is enough info to reproduce, but I'm not familiar with bibtex-mode.
> Thanks.
> 
> > In Emacs LaTeX mode, whenever I tried to invoke bibtex command on the
> > current file by using C-c Tab (equivalent to issusing command
> > "tex-bibtex-file"), emacs changed the current directory to the home
> > directory and thus not being able to find the corresponding *.aux
> > file.
> >
> > Note that I was actually using Emacs LaTeX mode, not AucTeX mode.

I can reproduce the bug easily with "emacs -q" for all my LaTeX
files. (Usually I use auctex instead of tex-mode.) But it's not
clear to me, what the code is supposed to do. tex-bibtex-file calls
tex-main-file, which returns a relative filename. If there is just
one LaTeX file, it is this file's name (without any directory). But
then the working directory for the bibtex command is what
file-name-directory returns for the relative file name returned by
tex-main-file. This directory is usually nil. So the working
directory for the bibtex command becomes the $HOME directory and
bibtex fails.

I suggest, someone should look at this who is more familiar with
what tex-mode.el is supposed to do. This is a bug that should be
fixed before the next release.

Message #19 received at 5562-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 5562-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Roland Winkler <roland.winkler <at> physik.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject: Re: bug#5562: Emacs 23.1 problem with "tex-bibtex-file" command
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:44:32 -0500

> In Emacs LaTeX mode, whenever I tried to invoke bibtex command on the
> current file by using C-c Tab (equivalent to issusing command
> "tex-bibtex-file"), emacs changed the current directory to the home
> directory and thus not being able to find the corresponding *.aux
> file.

Thanks; fixed.

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