Re: oddity with TeX-style-private ?

[Vladimir Lomov]

Hello,
** Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> [2020-10-24 08:32:38 +0200]:

>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>> Since I have no clue what your directory structure is, I have no clue.
>> But customizing both TeX-style-{global,private} *and* TeX-style-path is
>> strange given that the latter's default value is built from the former.


>> Why setting any of them?  Why is ~/.emacs.d/auctex/style not fine for
>> private styles?  If I had some, I'd probably keep them in
>> ~/Repos/my-auctex-styles/ and simply use a symlink
>> ~/.emacs.d/auctex/style -> ~/Repos/my-auctex-styles/.


> I think there is something fundamentally wrong with the path setting, 
> TeX-style-private.

>     1. First I use customize for the setting not setq or add-to-list.

>     2. I now recall that I tried out several settings and none of them
>        worked save the one I use currently.

>        a. If I don't set TeX-style-global (and restart emacs), then per 
> default it is set to
>           Original value was
>           "/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-12.2.0/style"
>           I could set a link, as you propose but I find links messy, and
>           don't see why I just can't set it to
>               "/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/style"
>           Otherwise don't make it user configurable.
>           Be it as it may, even with the default setting, of
>           TeX-style-private is *ignored*

>        b. If I don't set TeX-style-path, then the default is
>           Its value is ("~/.emacs.d/auctex"
>           "/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-12.2.0/style"
>           "/home/oub/.emacs.d/auctex/auto"
>           "/home/oub/.emacs.d/auctex/style" "auto" "style") and, again,
>           TeX-style-private is *ignored*.

>     3. The only solution to my problem is to set
>         '(TeX-style-path
>         '("/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/style"
>         "auto" "style"
>        /home/oub/ALLES/emacs/site-lisp/auctex-private-style" ))

>        But then, why is TeX-style-private needed?

I only set 'TeX-auto-private' and 'TeX-style-private' and all seems to work
fine. I suspect that you "overconfigured" your Emacs and AUCTeX. Try from
bare minimal, without explicitly setting any TeX variables, then set them with
Custom interface and set only '-style-private' (and, may be, '-auto-private').

> I'd love to find the source of the problem, if you tell me how to debug
> this.

With Emacs I think (this is my experience) that the only way to "debug" is to
start from bare configuration and adding one thing after the other.

> Regards

> Uwe 

---
WBR, Vladimir Lomov

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