Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.85; TeX-parse-self is not active

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * José Carlos Santos (2008-09-22) writes:
>
>> On 18-09-2008 9:01, José Carlos Santos wrote:
>>
>>>> And if you add
>>>> (setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t)
>>>> ?
>>> 
>>> No, it doesn't work.
>>
>> I thought that maybe my way of installing AUCTeX has something to do 
>> with my problem.
>
> My guess would be that this is more a RefTeX-related problem than one
> related to AUCTeX.
>
>> The manual suggests that I use this these statements at 
>> the shell prompt:
>>
>> ./configure --prefix='C:/Program Files/Emacs' \
>> --infodir='C:/Program Files/Emacs/info' \
>> --with-texmf-dir='C:/localtexmf'
>>
>> Well, this has never been enough for me. I always got an error message 
>> that made me add
>>
>> --with-lispdir='C:/Program Files/Emacs/site-lisp'
>>
>> to these statements.
>
> IIRC the configure script should automatically figure out the lispdir
> when prefix is given and points to the root directory of a pristine
> Emacs installation on Windows.  I'm not sure why it doesn't do this
> anymore because the respective code hasn't been touched in years.

It is conceivable that the respective code does not have the proper
amount of quoting to have the spaces in the path names get through
unmolested.

-- 
David Kastrup