[Bug-AUCTeX] Problem with spaces in file names

[Peter PICHLER]

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Dear Sirs,

I recently moved to a new laptop running XP with SP3 and installed  the 
precompiled version emacs-23.1-bin-i386.zip from 
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ to C:\Programme\emacs\emacs-23.1. 
Thereafter, using cygwin, I installed auctex-11.85.zip from 
http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/download-for-windows.html

Everything worked fine from the scratch until I had an error in a LaTeX 
file with a space in the full path name. Invoking TeX-next-error via C-c 
`, my emacs wasn't able to find the LaTeX source file to position the 
cursor to the error. With the LaTeX file being "c:/Sync/Lap09Install/a 
b/xx.tex", AucTeX opened a buffer instead of the LaTeX source file that 
appeared in the buffer list in the form:
.   a                        0  LaTeX          c:/Sync/Lap09Install/a 
b/"c:/Sync/Lap09Install/a

I traced the problem back to TeX-parse-error. Analyzing the file 
xx_output enclosed, in the first pass of the while loop, "MiKTeX 2.8" 
was pushed in line 57 of TeX-parse-error to TeX-error-file. In the third 
pass, "\"c:\\Sync\\Lap09Install\\a" was pushed instead of the full file 
name or whatever was expected to TeX-error-file, and in the fourth pass 
"\"C:\\Programme\\MiKTeX", which is also incomplete. Thus, I guess, the 
problem of not correctly identifying the full file names is somewhere in 
the regexp starting at line 6.

Unfortunately, the regexp withstood my attempts of a quick and dirty 
modification so that I would be really grateful for help. In case of any 
addition information needed, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards,

Peter Pichler


Emacs  : GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2009-07-30 on SOFT-MJASON
Package: 11.85

current state:
==============
(setq
AUCTeX-date "2008-02-10"
window-system 'w32
LaTeX-version "2e"
TeX-style-path '("style" "auto"
         "c:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/pichler/Eigene 
Dateien/bibtex/style" "c:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/pichler/Eigene 
Dateien/bibtex/auto" 
"c:/Programme/emacs/emacs-23.1/site-lisp/auctex/style" 
"c:/Programme/emacs/emacs-23.1/var/auctex")
TeX-auto-save nil
TeX-parse-self nil
TeX-master t
TeX-command-list '(("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t"
            TeX-run-TeX nil
            (plain-tex-mode ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode) :help
            "Run plain TeX")
           ("LaTeX" "%`%l%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil
            (latex-mode doctex-mode) :help "Run LaTeX")
           ("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %t" TeX-run-compile nil
            (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with Info output")
           ("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo --html %t" TeX-run-compile nil
            (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with HTML output")
           ("AmSTeX" "%(PDF)amstex %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t"
            TeX-run-TeX nil (ams-tex-mode) :help "Run AMSTeX")
           ("ConTeXt" "texexec --once --texutil %(execopts)%t"
            TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt once")
           ("ConTeXt Full" "texexec %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil
            (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt until completion")
           ("BibTeX" "bibtex %s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil t :help
            "Run BibTeX")
           ("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard t t :help "Run Viewer")
           ("Print" "%p" TeX-run-command t t :help "Print the file")
           ("Queue" "%q" TeX-run-background nil t :help
            "View the printer queue" :visible TeX-queue-command)
           ("File" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-command t t :help
            "Generate PostScript file")
           ("Index" "makeindex %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help
            "Create index file")
           ("Check" "lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode)
            :help "Check LaTeX file for correctness")
           ("Spell" "(TeX-ispell-document \"\")" TeX-run-function nil
            t :help "Spell-check the document")
           ("Clean" "TeX-clean" TeX-run-function nil t :help
            "Delete generated intermediate files")
           ("Clean All" "(TeX-clean t)" TeX-run-function nil t :help
            "Delete generated intermediate and output files")
           ("Other" "" TeX-run-command t t :help
            "Run an arbitrary command")
           )
)

xx.tex
Description: TeX document

Running `LaTeX' on `xx' with ``latex  -interaction=nonstopmode "\input" 
"xx.tex"''
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (MiKTeX 2.8)
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, 
german, ngerman, german-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, french, loaded.
("c:\Sync\Lap09Install\a b\xx.tex"
("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\base\size10.clo"))
("c:\Sync\Lap09Install\a b\xx.aux")
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text> 
                $
l.4 right_
          x
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text> 
                $
l.5 \end{document}
                  
[1] ("c:\Sync\Lap09Install\a b\xx.aux") )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on xx.dvi (1 page, 272 bytes).
Transcript written on xx.log.

LaTeX exited abnormally with code 1 at Wed Sep 09 13:51:46

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