Re: [AUCTeX-devel] [PATCH v2]: Merge /preview/ into top-level

[Uwe Brauer]

   > Matthew Leach <address@hidden> writes:
   > Hi all,


Maybe something has escaped my eyes, but is 11.88 now official? If so I
would/should give it a try and transform it to an official xemacs pkg. 


   > Of course it *should* work.  But I can confirm the "Symbol's value as
   > variable is void: hack-one-local-variable" compilation error with the
   > very same XEmacs version (also with Mule support).

Oops this variable does not exist in my 21.5.33 Mule neither. I have to
give that version a try.


   > The problem is caused by the defadvice for `hack-one-local-variable' in
   > tex.el.  When I comment that out it compiles successfully until it
   > errors because I don't have edit-utils installed and thus crm is
   > missing.  (Somehow, I cannot get the XEmacs package manager to install
   > edit-utils.  It'll always say that the tarball isn't available no matter
   > what download site I activate.)

You should comment that on xemacs-beta please. The package manager
*should* work.

   > Then I installed my distro's xemacs-all-packages package.  The crm error
   > was gone and compilation finished successfully.  And now the strange
   > thing is: even when I uncommend the defadvice again, then "make
   > distclean" and configure anew, the hack-one-local-variable error doesn't
   > occur anymore.  So it seems that one needs some additional package to
   > work properly but I don't know which.
I report back as soon as possible.

Uwe