bug#20295: 11.88.3; AUCTeX, ESS, Noweb, and "Error running timer `font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay': (wrong-number-of-arguments (2 . 2) 3)"

[Arash Esbati]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> "Bourgoin, Mario" <Mario.Bourgoin@emc.com> writes:
>
> Hi Mario,
>
>> Indeed, the definition of ` font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay' begins as 
>> follows:
>> ----
>> (defun font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay (buf start end)
>>   "Compatibility for Emacsen not offering `jit-lock-force-redisplay'."
>>   (if (fboundp 'jit-lock-force-redisplay)
>>       (jit-lock-force-redisplay buf start end)
>> ----
>>
>> So it calls the apparently two-argument jit-lock-force-redisplay with
>> three arguments.
>
> Correctly identified, but the above is not the definition of
> `font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay' as shipped with 11.88.3.  So it
> seems you have an old auctex/font-latex.el laying around somewhere in
> your `load-path' which overrides the one of 11.88.3.
>
> Do M-x list-load-path-shadows RET to find out.  The version you are
> supposed to use should reside in ~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.88.3/ (or
> ~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.88.4/ if you updated to the newest release).

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

More information was requested which was not provided.  I'm closing this
report for now, we can reopen if new input arrives.

Best, Arash