install on win2000pro

[j.p. grivet]

Hello,

I routinely use Emacs/auctex-10.0 on a W2000 pro machine. I am trying to
install auctec-11.55 and I meet some (small) problems.

The installation (using MSYS) produced no error message. When loading a
.tex file, the syntax is color-coded as it should, environments, as
provided by packages such as revtex or beamer, are available in the
drop-down menus, fonts can be changed as described, in other words
auctex works perfectly within emacs.

Trouble starts when I want to compile: for every file, when I click
latex, it complains that it cannot find file .tex, even though the file
(with complete path) appears in the emacs status bar. Surprisingly,
clicking latex interactive works fine.

Clicking view always brings the answer xdvi <filename>. How can I get
auctex to take into account by default that I have yap installed ?
Typing C-cC-c doesn't help, as auctex answers nomatch to
C:\texmf\miktek\bin\yap.exe (or same with /).

One last point: the statement tek-mik.el is better for Win does not seem
warranted; it only gives access to tex commands, in my case.

Anyway, thank you very much for developping and maintaining a vey useful
program. I hope you will be able to find out what I did wrong.

TIA,
jp grivet

[Ralf Angeli]

Post by j.p. grivet
Trouble starts when I want to compile: for every file, when I click
latex, it complains that it cannot find file .tex, even though the file
(with complete path) appears in the emacs status bar. Surprisingly,
clicking latex interactive works fine.

There is nothing like "latex interactive" in AUCTeX 11.55. Did you
change `TeX-command-list' somehow? In case you did, does the error go
away upon removing this customization?

Post by j.p. grivet
Clicking view always brings the answer xdvi <filename>. How can I get
auctex to take into account by default that I have yap installed ?
Typing C-cC-c doesn't help, as auctex answers nomatch to
C:\texmf\miktek\bin\yap.exe (or same with /).
One last point: the statement tek-mik.el is better for Win does not seem
warranted; it only gives access to tex commands, in my case.

How did you use it? You should insert

(require 'tex-mik)

instead of `(require 'tex-site)' into your init file. This should
modify the variables `TeX-view-style' and `TeX-output-view-style' in
such a way that Yap is called for viewing DVI files. Of course, if
you have your own customizations interfering with this, it won't
work. So my suggestion would be to try all of the above with a
minimal setup for AUCTeX.