Re: [Richard Everson] Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 2007-12-28; TeX-next-error finds wrong file

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2008-02-16) writes:

> This is all such an unreliable mess.  Perhaps our file name recorder
> should never forget any file and just record the name and the purported
> nesting.

With "file" you probably mean anything in parentheses.

> And when an error occurs, it checks every recorded file name
> in some intelligent order, preferring loaded files over non-loaded ones
> and ignoring non-existent pseudo-files, and then using the first match
> for the error context lines.

Hm, with a lot of rubbish on the file name stack this might even
increase the probability of false matches.

> Or tell people to configure file-line error messages.

How about we actually make this the default as also Richard proposed?
If people use TeX engines not aware of the -file-line-error option,
would they abort when encountering it?  I just tried with
$ pdftex --version
pdfTeX using libpoppler 3.141592-1.40.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.6)
kpathsea version 3.5.6
and this processes a file even if given an unrecognized command line
argument.  It only complains like this:
latex: unrecognized option `--foo'

-- 
Ralf