Uwe Siart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the AUCTeX manual now says: > > ,----[ (info "(auctex)Installation under MS Windows") ] > | 10. Run `make install' in the installation directory. > | > | 11. With XEmacs, AUCTeX and preview-latex should now be active by > | default. With Emacs, acticavation depends on a working > | `site-start.d' directory or similar setup, since then the startup > | files `auctex.el' and `preview-latex.el' will have been placed > | there. If this has not been done, you should be able to load the > | startup files manually with > | (load "auctex.el" nil t t) > | (load "preview-latex.el" nil t t) > | in either a site-wide `site-start.el' or your personal startup file > | (usually accessible as `~/.emacs' from within Emacs and > | `~/.xemacs/init.el' from within XEmacs). > `---- > > Does this mean that (require 'tex-site) is no longer the preferred way > to activate AUCTeX.
Yes, mostly. Loading auctex.el has the advantage that it has the path to tex-site.el hardwired into it: that way you are pretty sure to get the most up-to-date version of AUCTeX even if other tex-site.el are flying around on your system. Given the number of error reports where people had an old tex-site.el shadowing the new installation, I think this is prudent. It also means that a user can do (unload-feature 'tex-site) and have AUCTeX removed for all practical purposes. Something like that is important if we want to encourage using AUCTeX as a system default. The current Emacs/XEmacs code of unload-feature will not work after (require 'tex-site). > The lines cited above could be understood in such a way that > > (load "auctex.el" nil t t) > (load "preview-latex.el" nil t t) > > are the commands to be put in site-start.el. Is this true now? Yes. > I'm worried because another section in the manual still says > > ,----[ (info "(auctex)Loading the package") ] > | For GNU Emacs, the recommended way to activate AUCTeX is to add the > | following line to your `.emacs' file: > | > | (require 'tex-site) > `---- That is because I am still working on the non-Windows installation instructions and have not checked in an update yet. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
