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Re: Adding command to TeX-command-list


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Adding command to TeX-command-list
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:31:28 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

henry atting <nsmp_02@online.de> writes:

> What's wrong with this:
>
> (eval-after-load "tex"
>       '(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
>        '("XeLaTeX" "%`xelatex%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil t))
>
> When adding it to ~/.emacs Emacs starts with an error message.
> Then again I can evaluate it with `C-x C-e' when Emacs is up easily.

That is because C-x C-e matches to the corresponding opening brace (that
for add-to-list) and never gets to see eval-after-load, whereas when
reading ~/.emacs, Emacs reads all of the above and does not find a
matching brace for eval-after-load.

-- 
David Kastrup


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