Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] Re: preview-1.248; preview completely broken?

[David Kastrup]

Richard Lewis <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> [The stuff below is with
>>>
>
> with debug-on-signal the first backtrace produced is:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)
>   coding-system-plist(nil)
>   coding-system-get(nil alias-coding-systems)
>   coding-system-base(nil)
>   byte-code(".

Oops, that looks bad.  It means that buffer-file-coding-system for the
buffer from which you started preview-latex is _nil_.  Is this the
same for default-buffer-file-coding-system on your system as well?

C-h v default-buffer-file-coding-system RET

would give that information.  Do you have any idea how this value
comes about?  It would indicate that Emacs can't figure out a buffer
encoding for writing the file, namely that your locale settings are so
inconsistent as to make Emacs unable to guess a coding system.

Can you write files without Emacs asking for a coding system?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum