Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.85; verbatim highlight problem

[Ralf Angeli]

* Ralf Hemmecke (2010-05-22) writes:

> On 05/22/2010 03:38 PM, Ralf Angeli wrote:
>> 
>> I don't see a problem with the CVS version of AUCTeX and I expect this
>> to be the same with 11.86.
>
> Does that help...
> http://sites.google.com/site/hemmecke/emacs-auctex-verbatim-bug
> And it is 11.85 in Ubuntu Lucid. Sorry, I first have to figure out how
> to convince my emacs to load my local cvs-auctex-checkout instead of the
> system-wide one. Any hints?

Usually this is controlled with `load-path' which should be configured
to find local Emacs packages first.  Alternatively you can uninstall the
"system-wide" one.

>> IIRC it is unsafe to add stuff like a comment starter on the same line
>> after \begin{verbatim}.  Unfortunately I don't remember where I read
>> this and what the exact issue was.
>
> Why should that be unsafe? For auctex or for latex?
> You've probably read that putting characters after an \end{verbatim}
> might result in losing these characters in the latex output.

I think that was what I had in mind.

> But with a
> % I want to ignore them anyway.

Right.

> Auctex should not interpret comment signs in verbatim environments.

If that were so easy ...

-- 
Ralf