Sorry, my fault: i just checked and I was doing a reversed diff -- the git
repo has no further reference to xemacs. Great! I will have a look at both
problems now. It is good to find a work-related justification to do some
lisp again.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks! It really looks simpler than I expected. Maybe it could be added
> to the READMe?
>
> Regarding xemacs, I cloned git repo and diffed it against auctex official
> tarball. Elpa and auctex 's tarball basically coincide, but both are
> missing references to xemacs that still show up on the git repo master
> branch from savannah. Seems I am doing something wrong...
>
> Juanjo
>
> El mié., 18 abr. 2018 11:54, Mosè Giordano <[email protected]> escribió:
>
>> Hi Juanjo,
>>
>> 2018-04-17 18:26 GMT+02:00 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
>> <[email protected]>:
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > please excuse my ignorance. I am a long time user of AucTeX, and I love
>> it
>> > enough to have written a 300 page book and 120 articles with it.
>>
>> Great to hear this!
>>
>> >  However,
>> > throughout the lifetime of the project and my migration back to
>> Windows, I
>> > have found some minor problems that I do not want to solve using local
>> hacks
>> > of your functions.
>> >
>> > These include:
>> >
>> > * TeX-error-summary is arbitrarily closed by AucTeX before compilation,
>> > causing a new window to be created. In general the philosophy of how
>> this
>> > buffer is handled deviates from that of other buffers (Help, manuals,
>> > compilations, etc)
>> >
>> > * AucTeX fails to parse error messages on MikTeX due to various issues,
>> > including spurious ^M characters sometimes popping up in packages.
>> >
>> > I would like to debug and work on both locally and contribute patches
>> for
>> > both issues, but I find it very obscure how to do this. For starters,
>> the
>> > ELPA package of AucTeX does not seem to match the sources that are
>> available
>> > on Git.
>>
>> The ELPA package is built from the git repo, but indeed you can't use
>> the ELPA package to develop the package itselft.
>>
>> > My ideal workflow would be:
>> > * Develop on top of my git branch
>> > * Let Emacs do the importing of that branch
>>
>> Actually, the question has been already asked a few times before, here
>> you can find a quick & dirty solution:
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex/2013-08/msg00005.html.  At
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=auctex you can find the
>> information about how to clone the git repository.
>>
>> > P.S.: As a side question, why does the ELPA package eliminate all
>> references
>> > to xemacs? Is this done automatically?
>>
>> I'm not sure what "references" you're referring to.  AUCTeX dropped
>> support for XEmacs in version 12.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to seeing your contributions!
>>
>> Bye,
>> Mosè
>>
>
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