Hi Arash,
Perhaps you did not know yet but my Emacsen nickname is "stupid noob who
top-posts".
Turns out I had an ELPA installed 13.1.5 auctex, I don't know what it was
doing there, we had some system-upgrade some months ago, and a change of
file-server,
M-x list-load-path-shadows RET
Maybe that helps.
It dit not really as it reported only
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/latex-cjk-thai/thai-word hides
/usr/share/emacs/26.3/lisp/language/thai-word
1 Emacs Lisp load-path shadowing was found
(I did that in a buffer with a .tex file and a .dtx file also to be sure)
But then I started doing `find <dir> -name latex*` like crazy everywhere until
suddenly a synapse woke up and told me to check my .emacs.d directory
and there it was. I had removed from .emacs.d/elpa/ some earlier 13.0.4 (or
.14 now
removed so I don't recall) but .emacs.d/elpa/ mysteriously contained
this 13.1.5
For time being I will go with ELPA 13.2 which I have installed and forget
about the git thing which I have deactivated from my init file.
Sorry for noise and thanks for Help.
Jean-François
Le 25/04/2023 à 11:40, Arash Esbati a écrit :
Hi Jean-François,
jfbu <j...@free.fr> writes:
I observe the following behavior on doing
$ emacs $(kpsewhich lthooks.dtx) &
the message "defvar: Symbol’s value as variable is void: LaTeX-font-family"
appears
and Emacs does not open the dtx file.
That variable was added to latex.el with commit 82a23a93ae; but I think
you've found it already.
To be precise I currenty am using the git repo at commit
d6fb3c58c
$ git log --oneline -5
d6fb3c58 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Be more resilient when
parsing arguments
bd2c1c67 (tag: release_13_2) ; Release_13.2
b49bb229 ; make change-history-commit
ec742f33 ; Prepare for new release
191db684 Improve style/enumitem.el
Your latex.el should be recent enough.
I suspect the issue could be one of incompatibility with site-start.d files
(Later I will try this on my macos laptop)
I suspect you have multiple latex.el's on your HD. Open a .tex file in
order to load AUCTeX and then try:
M-x list-load-path-shadows RET
Maybe that helps.
Don't know if that matters but I see a commented-out line in my .emacs
; (unload-feature 'tex-site)
It was commented out in 2018 with "commenting-out else
does not load since system upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04"
(but no idea about what "does not load" meant)
You're using AUCTeX from a git repo, so it should be sufficient to load
AUCTeX as described here[1]. Maybe you want to check your init file as
well. HTH.
Best, Arash
Footnotes:
[1]
https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex.html#Using-AUCTeX-from-local-Git-repo
