[Bug-AUCTeX] Re: [Sven Joachim] Bug#483731: auctex: postinst failed with emacs-snapshot

[Adrian Lanz]

The same here: Debian/sid (2.6.25-2-amd64) and Debian/testing
(2.6.24.-1-686).

In the meantime, I downgraded to an old version. Thanks for the message,
Adrian.

>>>>> On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:39:19 +0200
>>>>> "DK" == David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

    DK> Saw this in the Debian bug list.  Anybody else having problems
    DK> in that area?


    DK> From: Sven Joachim <address@hidden> Subject: Bug#483731:
    DK> auctex: postinst failed with emacs-snapshot To: "Sebastian
    DK> P. Luque" <address@hidden> CC: address@hidden,
    DK> "Davide G. M. Salvetti" <address@hidden> Date: Mon, 02 Jun
    DK> 2008 14:24:21 CEST Reply-To: Sven Joachim <address@hidden>,
    DK> address@hidden

    DK> On 2008-05-31 15:31 +0200, Sebastian P. Luque wrote:

    >> I did a `check-parens' on tthe offending file
    >> (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-jp.el), which indicated
    >> that there is at least one unmatched parenthesis.

    DK> Actually, that is not the problem.  Rather, emacs-snapshot
    DK> misreads this file as UTF-8 instead of iso-2022-jp.

    DK> I don't know which changes in Emacs are responsible for that
    DK> (the problem did not exist in the 20080510-1 snapshot and
    DK> earlier versions), but in any case tex-jp.el should have a
    DK> coding cookie, e.g. a first line that reads like this:

    DK> ;;; -*- coding: iso-2022-jp -*-

    DK> Adding this at the beginning of tex-jp.el lets emacs-snapshot
    DK> configure itself successfully.

    DK> Regards,
    DK>         Sven




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    DK> -- David Kastrup