[AUCTeX-devel] multi-file support

[Richard Lewis]

[Probably the wrong time to be reporting small matters, but]
According to `C-h v TeX-master RET', 

|If the variable is 'shared, AUCTeX will query for the name, but not
|change the file.

but I never get asked.

One way to test this is to have a file

blah.tex:
,----
| X
| 
| %%% Local Variables: 
| %%% mode: latex
| %%% TeX-master: shared
| %%% End: 
`----

then

emacs -Q -eval "(progn (require 'tex-site)
                       (setq TeX-auto-save t TeX-parse-self t)
                       (setq-default TeX-master nil))"    blah.tex

then `C-c C-c RET' runs ``latex "\nonstopmode\input{blah.tex}"'' and
we get a 'missing \begin{document}' error.

As far as I understand this [i.e., not very well], TeX-master-file
will only ask if its 3rd argument is t, but TeX-command-master just
calls TeX-master-file with no arguments.  I would suggets the
following patch which sets the 3rd argument to t, but there are a few
places where just (TeX-master-file) is used so maybe they all need to
change?  but then why not just get rid of the last arg to
TeX-master-file?  (ie always ask the user if we dont know what the
master file is)

--- /homedir/richard/.src/auctex-cvs/tex-buf.el Tue Apr 26 12:03:26 2005
+++ /homedir/richard/.apps/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-buf.el      Wed Apr 
27 23:00:53 2005
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
 If a prefix argument OVERRIDE-CONFIRM is given, confirmation will
 depend on it being positive instead of the entry in `TeX-command-list'."
   (interactive "P")
-  (TeX-command (TeX-command-query (TeX-master-file)) 'TeX-master-file
+  (TeX-command (TeX-command-query (TeX-master-file nil nil t)) 'TeX-master-file
               override-confirm))

 (defvar TeX-command-region-begin nil)


Emacs  : GNU Emacs 22.0.50.5 (i386-unknown-freebsd5.4, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll 
bars)
 of 2005-04-26
Package: 2005-05-03