[AUCTeX-devel] Re: AUCTeX and Tramp

[Stephen Berman]

On Tue, 06 May 2008 16:35:41 +0200 David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> Stephen Berman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> When I try to run LaTeX via Tramp on a remote file under AUCTeX, LaTeX
>> says it can't find the file.  I can't tell if this is a bug or a faulty
>> configuration or other user error.  I have the same LaTeX setup (paths,
>> etc.) on both the local and remote machines.  I can reproduce the
>> problem with Emacs -Q by evaluating (load "auctex.el" nil t t), opening
>> the file via /ssh:, and typing C-c C-c to run LaTeX.  Then I get the
>> following output:
>
> Most likely some instances of start-process and
> start-process-shell-command need to be replaced with start-file-process
> and start-file-process-shell-command.

Thanks for the suggestion; the patch below fixes the problem for me (I
don't know if any of the remaining calls start-process in AUCTeX should
also be changed, but it wasn't necessary for my case).

Steve Berman

*** auctex/tex-buf.el.~1.272.~  2008-05-07 12:52:44.000000000 +0200
--- auctex/tex-buf.el   2008-05-07 13:08:45.000000000 +0200
***************
*** 577,584 ****
          (lambda (process name)
            (message (concat name ": done."))))
      (if TeX-process-asynchronous
!       (let ((process (start-process name buffer TeX-shell
!                                     TeX-shell-command-option command)))
          (if TeX-after-start-process-function
              (funcall TeX-after-start-process-function process))
          (TeX-command-mode-line process)
--- 577,584 ----
          (lambda (process name)
            (message (concat name ": done."))))
      (if TeX-process-asynchronous
!       (let ((process (start-file-process name buffer TeX-shell
!                                          TeX-shell-command-option command)))
          (if TeX-after-start-process-function
              (funcall TeX-after-start-process-function process))
          (TeX-command-mode-line process)