Re: Biber: void-variable TeX-command-list error

[David Kastrup]

Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> writes:

> I'm trying to get biber working with TeXLive2011, with Debian Squeeze. I
> pasted the material in the biber manual into my ~/.elisp file, but
> encountered this error when I reloaded .emacs:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable TeX-command-list)
>   add-to-list(TeX-command-list ("Biber" "biber %s" TeX-run-Biber nil t
>     :help "Run Biber")) 
>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*<2>> nil "/home/haines/.emacs" nil t)  ;
>     Reading at buffer position 18387 
>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/haines/.emacs" "/home/haines/.emacs"
>     nil nil) 
>   load("~/.emacs")
>   reload()
>
> Since I've no clue, I've appended the pasted lines. I had assumed that
> all I had to do was paste these lines from the biber manual and reload
> to gain access to the C-c C-c biber command.
>

Why is the following not wrapped in

(eval-after-load  "tex" '(add-to-list ... ))


> (add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
>   (quote
>     ("Biber" "biber %s" TeX-run-Biber nil t :help "Run Biber")))

along with the rest:

> (eval-after-load "tex"
>   (quote (defun TeX-Biber-sentinel (process name)

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David Kastrup