Re: [O] AUCTeX conflicting with org-mode

[Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala]

Hello Nick.,

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:

> suvayu ali <address@hidden> wrote:
>

[snipped]

>
> Actually, your backtrace in the original post makes things clearer now.
>
> org-export-as-latex calls find-file-noselect on the .tex file, which
> calls after-find-file which runs the find-file-hook.  Somehow the
> find-file-hook is set up[fn:1] as in VirTeX-common-initialization to
> call TeX-master-file - although your backtrace shows compiled code, it's
> pretty clear that that's the setting of the find-file-hook that
> VirTeX-common-initialization has done. So it looks as if tex.el is
> partially loaded: the initialization is done, the hook is set up but the
> defvar has failed, probably because of the let-bind.


Thanks for the analysis. I think you are right. With my limited elisp skills I
would say its a *bug* and coming from org.

If I take that let-binding off and setting the TeX-master by checking with
if it ever bound seems fixing this problem.

this patch fixing the problem. (can be further improved)

diff --git a/lisp/org-latex.el b/lisp/org-latex.el
index 03664b4..9e53849 100644
--- a/lisp/org-latex.el
+++ b/lisp/org-latex.el
@@ -885,7 +885,6 @@ when PUB-DIR is set, use this as the publishing directory."
                   (concat filename ".tex")
                 filename)))
         (auto-insert nil); Avoid any auto-insert stuff for the new file
-        (TeX-master t) ; Avoid the Query for TeX master from AUCTeX
         (buffer (if to-buffer
                     (cond
                      ((eq to-buffer 'string) (get-buffer-create
@@ -958,6 +957,8 @@ when PUB-DIR is set, use this as the publishing directory."
           :exclude-tags (plist-get opt-plist :exclude-tags)
           :LaTeX-fragments nil)))
 
+    (if (boundp 'TeX-master) (setq TeX-master t)) ; Avoid the Query for TeX 
master from AUCTeX
+
     (set-buffer buffer)
     (erase-buffer)
     (org-install-letbind)


-- 
YYR