Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] bug in tex-expand-list, 11.84-4

[Ralf Angeli]

Please send answers to the mailing list and not to me privately only.  I
am quoting the full message for other list participants as a reference.

* Peter Olmsted (2007-09-22) writes:

> Hi Ralf,
>
> Thanks for replying.
>
> On 22 Sep 2007, at 15:25, Ralf Angeli wrote:
>
>> * Peter Olmsted (2007-09-22) writes:
>>
>>> I have just installed the latest auctex, 11.84-4. Out of the box,
>>> latex and tex are configured with a %x expansion character in tex-
>>> command-list.  E.g.
>>> as "latex %x  %t".
>>
>> Then either you or the people you got AUCTeX from defined it like  
>> this.
>>
>>> TeX-command-list '(("TeX" "tex  '\\nonstopmode\\input %t'" TeX-run-
>>> TeX nil t)
>>>                 ("TeX Interactive" "tex  %t" TeX-run-interactive nil t)
>>>                 ("LaTeX" "latex  '\\nonstopmode\\input{%t}'"
>>>                  TeX-run-LaTeX nil t)
>>
>> This has close to nothing in common with the default value of a  
>> vanilla
>> AUCTeX 11.84 installation.  I suggest you remove the customization you
>> have for `TeX-command-list'.
>>
>> If removing the customization does not work, you likely have old files
>> lying around which shadow the new ones (or the distribution of AUCTeX
>> you are using is broken).
>
> Sorry, I'm a bit confused...
>
> The definition I  received (which was downloaded using fink, not sure
> which mirror) used the expansion %x, which is not defined in tex- 
> expand-list.
> So, it now works with %x removed.
>
> Are you suggesting that I put the %x back in and hence remove my
> change? If so, can you tell me what %x is supposed to expand to?
> Or am I correct to have it set up as it is now, without %x?
>
> Thanks again, and sorry for the confusion.
>
>   -- Peter

I am just saying that the %x stuff is not present in vanilla AUCTeX.  So
either Fink or you put that in.  In the former case (assuming you did
not change `TeX-command-list' and `TeX-expand-list') it could be a bug
introduced by Fink.  In the latter case you should remove your
customizations (assuming the %x stuff was introduced by you before the
upgrade).

-- 
Ralf