[Bug-AUCTeX] 11.81; removing AUCTeX

[Les Saper]

I would like to remove or disable a site-installed AUCTeX.  I 
tried this two ways, as indicated below.  Each way resulted in an 
error; I include the two backtraces. 

1) According to the manual removing AUCTeX can be done by including the line 

(unload-feature 'tex-site)

in my ~/.emacs file.  When I do this I am informed that an error occured
while loading .emacs:

Wrong type argument: listp, texinfo

The full backtrace is an follows:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp texinfo)
  assq-delete-all(TeX-modes-set (texinfo (TeX-modes-set (quote TeX-modes) 
TeX-modes t)))
  (while list (assq-delete-all (quote TeX-modes-set) (car list)) (setq list 
(cdr list)))
  (let ((list after-load-alist)) (while list (assq-delete-all ... ...) (setq 
list ...)))
  (lambda nil (let (...) (while list ... ...)) (setq load-path (delq 
TeX-lisp-directory load-path)))()
  run-hooks(tex-site-unload-hook)
  unload-feature(tex-site)
  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "~/.emacs" nil t)
  load-with-code-conversion("/home/faculty/saper/.emacs" "~/.emacs" t t)
  load("~/.emacs" t t)
#[nil
"??    ?=???Q?5      ?=?'????#?#??5??5       
?=?1??5??Q??\n??#??=?F????!?????!??P?!?d?o?\f!?n\f?o?????\f\"????\f#???!?\f*?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
??command-line()
  normal-top-level()

2) I also tried to start emacs with `emacs -q -no-site-file' as recommended in
the FAQ.  I then evaluated (load "auctex.el" nil t t) in order to load
AUCTeX.  I then evaluated (unload-feature 'tex-site) to remove AUCTeX.
Again there was an error; the backtrace was

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp "desktop")
  assq-delete-all(TeX-modes-set ("desktop" (progn (dolist ... ...) (add-hook 
... ...))))
  (while list (assq-delete-all (quote TeX-modes-set) (car list)) (setq list 
(cdr list)))
  (let ((list after-load-alist)) (while list (assq-delete-all ... ...) (setq 
list ...)))
  (lambda nil (let (...) (while list ... ...)) (setq load-path (delq 
TeX-lisp-directory load-path)))()
  run-hooks(tex-site-unload-hook)
  unload-feature(tex-site)
  eval((unload-feature (quote tex-site)))
  eval-last-sexp-1(t)
  eval-last-sexp(t)
  eval-print-last-sexp()
* call-interactively(eval-print-last-sexp)

I would appreciate any suggestions you have.

- Les Saper

-----------------------------------------------------------
Leslie Saper                    e-mail: address@hidden
Department of Mathematics       phone: 919-660-2843
Duke University                 Fax: 919-660-2821
Box 90320
Durham, NC   27708-0320
USA


Emacs  : GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2005-05-18 on decompose.build.redhat.com
Package: 11.81

current state:
==============
(setq
 AUCTeX-date "2005-09-25"
 window-system 'x
 LaTeX-version "2e"
 TeX-style-path '("style" "auto"
                  "/home/faculty/saper/usr/share/lilypond/tex/style"
                  "/home/faculty/saper/TeX/Inputs/style"
                  "/home/faculty/saper/usr/share/lilypond/tex/auto"
                  "/home/faculty/saper/TeX/Inputs/auto"
                  "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/style" "/var/auctex")
 TeX-auto-save nil
 TeX-parse-self nil
 TeX-master t
 TeX-command-list '(("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) %S%(PDFout) \"%(mode)\\input %t\""
                     TeX-run-TeX nil
                     (plain-tex-mode ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode) :help
                     "Run plain TeX")
                    ("LaTeX" "%l \"%(mode)\\input{%t}\"" TeX-run-TeX nil
                     (latex-mode doctex-mode) :help "Run LaTeX")
                    ("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %t" TeX-run-compile nil
                     (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with Info output")
                    ("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo --html %t" TeX-run-compile nil
                     (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with HTML output")
                    ("AmSTeX" "%(PDF)amstex %S%(PDFout) \"%(mode)\\input %t\""
                     TeX-run-TeX nil (ams-tex-mode) :help "Run AMSTeX")
                    ("ConTeXt" "texexec --once --texutil %(execopts)%t"
                     TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt once")
                    ("ConTeXt Full" "texexec %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil
                     (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt until completion")
                    ("ConTeXt Clean" "texutil --purgeall" TeX-run-interactive
                     nil (context-mode) :help "Clean temporary ConTeXt files")
                    ("BibTeX" "bibtex %s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil t :help
                     "Run BibTeX")
                    ("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard t t :help "Run Viewer")
                    ("Print" "%p" TeX-run-command t t :help "Print the file")
                    ("Queue" "%q" TeX-run-background nil t :help
                     "View the printer queue" :visible TeX-queue-command)
                    ("File" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-command t t :help
                     "Generate PostScript file")
                    ("Index" "makeindex %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help
                     "Create index file")
                    ("Check" "lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode)
                     :help "Check LaTeX file for correctness")
                    ("Spell" "<ignored>" TeX-run-ispell-on-document nil t
                     :help "Spell-check the document")
                    ("Other" "" TeX-run-command t t :help
                     "Run an arbitrary command")
                    )
 )