Package: emacs21
Version: 21.4a-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/emacs21-x
Tags: patch
I have my dissertation set up as one main latex file in the parent
directory with and a bunch of supporting tex files with the actual
content for individual chapters in subdirectories (along with supporting
figures, etc.). In the supporting files, I want to include a "tex-main-file"
variable that points to the main tex file, "../jvr-dissertation.tex". I
need to use relative paths, because I want to be able to version control
it and work on it on different machines.
When I tried to do this, and I ran "tex-file" (ctrl-c, ctrl-f),
emacs would open up a "tex-shell" window, change to the parent directory
and then try to run "latex \\nonstopmode\\input ../jvr-dissertation.tex".
(That is, it used ".." in the filename even though it had already
chagned the current directory to "..".)
The included patch to /usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el
fixes this problem by extracting just the file name part of
tex-main-file and passing using that on the latex command line.
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-- no debconf information
--- tex-mode.el.orig 2005-06-04 19:56:43.000000000 -0700
+++ tex-mode.el 2005-06-04 20:02:42.000000000 -0700
@@ -1662,8 +1662,8 @@
This function is more useful than \\[tex-buffer] when you need the
`.aux' file of LaTeX to have the correct name."
(interactive)
- (let* ((source-file (tex-main-file))
- (file-dir (file-name-directory (expand-file-name source-file))))
+ (let* ((source-file (file-name-nondirectory (tex-main-file)))
+ (file-dir (file-name-directory (expand-file-name (tex-main-file)))))
(if tex-offer-save
(save-some-buffers))
(if (tex-shell-running)
