From owner-ntemacs-users@june Sun Sep 8 16:45:35 1996 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Mon" " 9" "September" "1996" "08:51:50" "+1000" "James Macnicol" "cmpeng7@chrome.anu.edu.au" nil "23" "AUC-TeX && 19.33" "^From:" nil nil "9" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from joker.cs.washington.edu (joker.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.42]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.5/7.2ju) with SMTP id QAA28802 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 1996 16:45:34 -0700 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by joker.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id QAA15533 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 1996 16:45:31 -0700 Received: from chrome.anu.edu.au. (chrome.anu.edu.au [150.203.166.79]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.5/7.2ju) with ESMTP id PAA25773 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:51:54 -0700 Received: from mute.anu.edu.au. (mute [150.203.166.81]) by chrome.anu.edu.au. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA10797 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 08:51:52 +1000 (EST) Received: (from cmpeng7@localhost) by mute.anu.edu.au. (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA10190 for ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 08:51:51 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199609082251.IAA10190@mute.anu.edu.au.> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: James Macnicol To: ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Subject: AUC-TeX && 19.33 Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 08:51:50 +1000 (EST) Hello, I have just upgraded from version 19.30 of emacs (on W95) to 19.33. I had the AUC-TeX enhanced LaTeX editing package running happily with 19.30 however after I did the upgrade things don't work right. I must manually load the package by changing the mode of the scratch buffer by typing "M-x latex-mode" then load the file I want to edit. It does not work if you simply try to load the file first. It complains about not being able to find tex.el. This is weird since I assume my load path is set up correctly or else I couldn't load it under any circumstances. Anyone know what's wrong? Thanks. -- James Macnicol J.Macnicol@student.anu.edu.au http://goblet.anu.edu.au/~m9305357/home.html From owner-ntemacs-users@june Wed Sep 4 07:51:23 1996 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Wed" " 4" "September" "1996" "15:33:31" "+0200" "Holger Mueller" "holger@vtx.muc.bmw.de" nil "56" "Re \"spawning child process: invalid argument\" in NT emacs 19.34" "^From:" nil nil "9" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from joker.cs.washington.edu (joker.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.42]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.5/7.2ju) with SMTP id HAA13517 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 07:51:23 -0700 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by joker.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id HAA16787 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 07:51:20 -0700 Received: from scf.bmw.de (scf.bmw.de [192.109.190.5]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.5/7.2ju) with SMTP id GAA10382 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 06:57:15 -0700 Received: from mailhub.muc by scf.bmw.de (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA48878; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 15:57:14 +0200 Received: from bmwsys.muc by mailhub.muc; Wed, 4 Sep 96 15:55:40 +0200 Received: from vtx.muc by bmwsys.muc (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28013; Wed, 4 Sep 96 15:57:13 +0200 Received: by vtx.muc (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id PAA16069; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 15:33:31 +0200 Message-Id: <199609041333.PAA16069@vtx.muc> From: Holger Mueller To: ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Cc: ckwang@umich.edu Subject: Re "spawning child process: invalid argument" in NT emacs 19.34 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 15:33:31 +0200 I had the same problems a few weeks ago. I got the following help from Ulrich Poetter: ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:42:25 +0200 From: Ulrich Poetter X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5aGold (WinNT; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Holger Mueller Subject: Re: problems with auctex References: <199608210828.KAA14102@vtx.muc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Holger Mueller wrote: > > Hello! > > I have installed NT Emacs 19.31 on my Win95. Furthermore I installed > AUC-TeX 9.5a completely. So far, it works pretty good. But if I try to > execute TeX/LaTeX via ->Command ->LaTeX (with an open TeX Buffer!) I get > the error message "Spawing child process: invalid argument". I receive > the same error message, if I try to start the Emacs server with "M-x > server-start". My "SHELL" environment variable is set to "command". > > I don't know if this stuff is not yet implemented in this Emacs version > for Win95, because I haven't read this mailing list since month. > > I don't know whats it problem with it, so pleeeeease help! > > Thanx Holger The problem stems from a wrong setting of the shell options in auctex when using NTemacs. auctex assumes "/bin/sh" unless (system-type) is ms-dos. But (system-type) in NTemacs is windows-nt. To overcome the problem put the following in your .emacs or tex-site: (setq TeX-shell "YOUR-SHELL") (setq TeX-shell-command-option "/C") ;if you use command ord cmd You also have to change the function TeX-directory-absolute-p in tex.el. In its definition change the (memq ..) line to include windows-nt and recompile. Hope that helps Uli ------- End of forwarded message ------- Hope that helps too Holger -- ================================================================== Holger Mueller Telefon: +49 89 382-48852 BMW AG Muenchen, Abt. EW-1 Fax: +49 89 382-48847 80788 Muenchen Email: holger@vtx.bmw.de Germany http://www.emk.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de/~mueller ================================================================== From owner-ntemacs-users@june Tue Nov 12 08:14:15 1996 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Tue" "12" "November" "1996" "08:15:49" "-0700" "John Jones" "jj@spline.la.asu.edu" nil "50" "Re: Spawning child processes under Windows 95" "^From:" nil nil "11" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from joker.cs.washington.edu (joker.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.42]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.6/7.2ju) with SMTP id IAA15971 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 08:14:15 -0800 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by joker.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id IAA27038 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 08:14:13 -0800 Received: from spline.la.asu.edu (spline.la.asu.edu [129.219.44.112]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.6/7.2ju) with SMTP id HAA13154 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 07:18:43 -0800 Received: (from jj@localhost) by spline.la.asu.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id IAA06052; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 08:15:49 -0700 Message-Id: <199611121515.IAA06052@spline.la.asu.edu> In-Reply-To: <9611120657.AA02955@bkmf3> References: <9611120657.AA02955@bkmf3> Reply-To: jj@asu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.93) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: John Jones To: ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Subject: Re: Spawning child processes under Windows 95 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 08:15:49 -0700 Eyssele Helmut writes: > Hallo ntemacs-users, I am installing the package AUC-TeX > in ntemacs 19.34 under Windows 95. After some > customizations in the AUC-TeX *.el files I could run > latex from emacs with the command C-c C-c LaTeX > interactive (I use the mikTeX package from Christian > Schenk). But when I start the previewer YAP (yet another > previewer) with the command C-c C-c View and try after- > wards running latex again I get from emacs: > Spawning child process: resource temporarily unavailable > Does the emacs can create only one subprocess by calling > command.com? When not, does anyone know, how one can > start more than one subshell? I don't use auctex, but I don't think that is part of the problem. You should change your view command to "start yap" in place of "yap". That is the NT way of running a background process. I haven't tried this with yap since I use dviwin (which is much better, IMHO). I also went into tex-mode.el and made a few changes. It assumes that certain commands should be run in the background and puts an "&" at the end of the line. NT didn't like that, so I took it out. Ideally, it should check for a NT-or-Unix variable and prepend with start/append & accordingly. I also found that map-ynp.el needed a little fixing. If you run (la)tex on a file from the menu-bar with buffers unsaved, it gives an error message. The problem is that it wants to pop-up a dialog box to ask about saving buffers, and pop-ups are not supported yet in ntemacs. If you change map-ynp.el(c) to work around this (i.e., to never pop up a dialog), you need to reload it from .emacs; it seems to be preloaded into the executable. This will be moot with the next version which will support pop-ups, right? John Jones --------------------------------------------------------------- Department of Mathematics Office: PSA 729 Arizona State University Phone: 965-3725 Tempe, AZ 85287-1804 FAX: 965-8119 URL: http://math.la.asu.edu/~jj e-mail: JJ@asu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-ntemacs-users@june Tue Nov 12 16:24:22 1996 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Tue" "12" "November" "1996" "15:43:29" "-0800" "Roger Germundsson" "germund@isl.stanford.edu" nil "35" "AucTeX and Emacs" "^From:" nil nil "11" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from joker.cs.washington.edu (joker.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.42]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.6/7.2ju) with SMTP id QAA00272 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 16:24:22 -0800 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by joker.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id QAA01946 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 16:24:21 -0800 Received: from coffee.Stanford.EDU (coffee.Stanford.EDU [36.60.0.11]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.6/7.2ju) with ESMTP id PAA26286 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:31:30 -0800 Received: from kronecker.stanford.edu (kronecker.Stanford.EDU [36.60.0.26]) by coffee.Stanford.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.1) with SMTP id PAA17534; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:31:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <32890BA1.2E8F@isl.stanford.edu> Reply-To: germund@ISL.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford University X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roger Germundsson To: ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Subject: AucTeX and Emacs Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:43:29 -0800 I've been using AucTeX for a number of years and I really like the environment. However lately I've changed to the Windows95 OS (for laptop) and have encountered some problems. Most things work, but running LaTeX and Dvi Viewers etc does not seem to work. I'm running AucTeX (version: 9.2y) and (NT) Emacs (version: 19.31). When I try to run C-c C-c LaTeX I get the following message: Spawning child process: Invalid argument The corresponding line in the tex-site.el file looks like: (list "LaTeX" "latex \\nonstopmode\\input{%t}" 'TeX-run-LaTeX nil t) I've removed the quotes around the command arguments as was suggested in the prototype tex-site.el file. In case I don't remove these quotes I get the following error message: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil Any ideas on how to fix this would be welcome. I can run latex and friends in a shell within Emacs with no problems, but then I miss out on the really useful debugging mode of AucTeX. Thanks in advance, Roger Germundsson Information Systems Lab Stanford University From owner-ntemacs-users@june Thu Nov 14 01:09:01 1996 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Thu" "14" "November" "1996" "09:14:14" "+0100" "Eyssele Helmut" "eyssele@bk.bosch.de" nil "191" "Re: Spawning child processes under Windows 95" "^From:" nil nil "11" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from joker.cs.washington.edu (joker.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.42]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.6/7.2ju) with SMTP id BAA07645 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 01:09:01 -0800 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by joker.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id BAA26157 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 01:08:58 -0800 Received: from si6624.bosch.de (si6624.bosch.de [193.141.57.1]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.6/7.2ju) with SMTP id AAA05329 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 00:15:16 -0800 Received: by si6624.bosch.de (5.65/rg-150294); id AA14337; Thu, 14 Nov 96 09:17:04 +0100 Received: from bkh0001.bk.bosch.de by si4640.si.bosch.de with SMTP id AA09659 (5.67b8+/IDA-1.5-DNgate-2.0-11 for ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu); Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:15:28 GMT Received: from bkmf3.bk.bosch.de by bkh0001.bk.bosch.de with SMTP (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA04302; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:17:48 +0100 Received: by bkmf3 (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA03400; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:14:14 +0100 Message-Id: <9611140814.AA03400@bkmf3> X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII X-Charset: ISO_8859-1 X-Char-Esc: 29 From: eyssele@bk.bosch.de (Eyssele Helmut) To: ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Subject: Re: Spawning child processes under Windows 95 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:14:14 +0100 First thanks to all, who have answered my question. I think too, that auctex isn't part of my problem. But nevertheless for all, who want to make TeX with ntemacs, here is the address, where you can get the newest release 9.5a: ftp://ftp.iesd.auc.dk/pub/emacs-lisp/auctex.tar.gz To use the auctex package in your emacs, you have to customize the file tex-site.el by copying and changing the customization part of tex.el into tex-site.el. I did this as follows (here only the changed parts): (defvar TeX-lisp-directory "d:/emacs/lisp/auctex/" "*The directory where the AUC TeX lisp files are located.") ;; Change this to point to the place where the TeX macros are stored ;; at yourt site. (defvar TeX-macro-global '("e:/texmf/tex/") "*Directories containing the sites TeX macro files and style files. ;; This is the major configuration variable. Most sites will only ;; need to change the second string in each entry, which is the name ;; of a command to send to the shell. If you use other formatters ;; like AMSLaTeX or AMSTeX, you can add those to the list. See ;; TeX-expand-list for a description of the % escapes (defvar TeX-command-list ;; You may have to remove the single quotes around the command ;; arguments if you use DOS. (list (list "TeX" "tex '\\nonstopmode\\input %t'" 'TeX-run-TeX nil t) (list "TeX Interactive" "tex %t" 'TeX-run-interactive nil t) (list "LaTeX" "%l '\\nonstopmode\\input{%t}'" 'TeX-run-LaTeX nil t) (list "LaTeX Interactive" "%l %t" 'TeX-run-interactive nil t) (list "LaTeX2e" "latex '\\nonstopmode\\input{%t}'" 'TeX-run-LaTeX nil t) (if (or window-system (getenv "DISPLAY")) (list "View" "%v " 'TeX-run-background t nil) (list "View" "dvi2tty -q -w 132 %s " 'TeX-run-command t nil)) (list "Print" "%p " 'TeX-run-command t nil) (list "Queue" "%q" 'TeX-run-background nil nil) (list "File" "dvips %d -o %f " 'TeX-run-command t nil) (list "BibTeX" "bibtex %s" 'TeX-run-BibTeX nil nil) (list "Index" "makeindex %s" 'TeX-run-command nil t) (list "Check" "lacheck %s" 'TeX-run-compile nil t) (list "Spell" "" 'TeX-run-ispell nil nil) (list "Other" "" 'TeX-run-command t t) ;; Not part of standard TeX. (list "Makeinfo" "makeinfo %t" 'TeX-run-compile nil t) (list "AmSTeX" "amstex '\\nonstopmode\\input %t'" 'TeX-run-TeX nil t)) "*List of commands to execute on the current document. Each element is a list, whose first element is the name of the command as it will be presented to the user. The second element is the string handed to the shell after being expanded. The expansion is done using the information found in TeX-expand-list. The third element is the function which actually start the process. Several such hooks has been defined: TeX-run-command: Start up the process and show the output in a separate buffer. Check that there is not two commands running for the same file. Return the process object. TeX-run-format: As TeX-run-command, but assume the output is created by a TeX macro package. Return the process object. TeX-run-TeX: For TeX output. TeX-run-LaTeX: For LaTeX output. TeX-run-interactive: Run TeX or LaTeX interactively. TeX-run-BibTeX: For BibTeX output. TeX-run-compile: Use `compile' to run the process. TeX-run-shell: Use `shell-command' to run the process. TeX-run-discard: Start the process in the background, discarding its output. TeX-run-background: Start the process in the background, show output in other window. TeX-run-dviout: Special hook for the Japanese dviout previewer for PC-9801. To create your own hook, define a function taking three arguments: The name of the command, the command string, and the name of the file to process. It might be useful to use TeX-run-command in order to create an asynchronous process. If the fourth element is non-nil, the user will get a chance to modify the expanded string. The fifth element is obsolete and ignored.") ;; You may want special options to the view command depending on the ;; style options. Only works if parsing is enabled. (defvar TeX-view-style '(("^a5$" "yap %d -paper a5") ("^landscape$" "yap %d -paper a4r -s 4") ;; The latest xdvi can show embedded postscript. ;; If you don't have that, uncomment next line. ;; ("^epsf$" "ghostview %f") ;; ey: xdvi durch yap ersetzt ("." "yap %d")) "*List of style options and view options. If the first element (a regular expresion) matches the name of one of the style files, any occurrence of the string %v in a command in TeX-command-list will be replaced with the second element. The first match is used, if no match is found the %v is replaced with the empty string.") I have only the intension to latex and view, not to print etc. Therefore I only customized these two commands. When you look at the View command you will see, that there is called TeX-run-background, which is defined in tex-buf.el. To make it run in ntemacs I had to customize tex-buf.el too. I made this by overload the definitions in tex-buf.el in my _emacs: ;; Customizing tex-buf.el: (defvar TeX-process-asynchronous (not (eq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))) "*Use asynchronous processes.") ;; included in this list _^ (defvar TeX-shell (if (memq system-type '(ms-dos emx windows-nt)) shell-file-name ;; ^_ included in this list "C:\\WINDOWS\\COMMAND.COM") ;; "/bin/sh" changed "Name of shell used to parse TeX commands.") (defvar TeX-shell-command-option ;; v- included in this list (cond ((eq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt)) (if (boundp 'shell-command-option) shell-command-option "/c")) (t ;Unix & EMX (Emacs 19 port to OS/2) "-c")) "Shell argument indicating that next argument is the command.") ;; End of Site Customization. In tex-buf.el TeX-run-background is defined as (defun TeX-run-background (name command file) "Start process with second argument, show output when and if it arrives." (save-excursion (set-buffer (get-buffer-create "*TeX background*")) (erase-buffer)) (let ((process (start-process (concat name " background") nil TeX-shell TeX-shell-command-option command))) (if TeX-after-start-process-function (funcall TeX-after-start-process-function process)) (set-process-filter process 'TeX-background-filter) (process-kill-without-query process))) With these changes the commands "View" and "LaTeX interactive" run fine, but with the limitation, that when I call the command "View" and let the YaP window open ntemacs says after the command "LaTeX interactive": Spawning child process: resource temporarily unavailable John Jones wrote: > You should change your view command to "start yap" > in place of "yap". That is the NT way of running a > background process. Until yet I didn't find out, where I can put "start yap" in the tex-buf.el file. I think the problem is that ntemacs calls yap in the subshell command.com and then has no resources free to call a second subshell. Auctex is designed to call the commands yap and latex in subshells (normally /bin/sh) and now one must find out how this can be realized in windows 95 and windows nt. Has anyone an idea? Thanks, Helmut EYSSELE __ ______ Bosch Telecom GmbH / / / ____/ Abt. UC-RF/EBG / /__/ /__ 71520 Backnang, GERMANY / ___ ___/ EMAIL: eyssele@bk.bosch.de / / / /___ and: helmut.eyssele@bk.bosch.de /_/ /_____/ PHONE: +49-7191-13-2795 ___________________________________________________________ From mahmud@sunwise.UWaterloo.ca Wed Sep 18 08:50:10 1996 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Wed" "18" "September" "1996" "11:49:52" "EDT" "Mahmud Ashrafizaadeh" "mahmud@sunwise.uwaterloo.ca" nil "41" "Emacs on W95???" "^From:" nil nil "9" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from sunwise.UWaterloo.ca.fluidnet (sunwise.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.46.41]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.5/7.2ju) with SMTP id IAA08147 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:50:09 -0700 Received: by sunwise.UWaterloo.ca.fluidnet (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17738; Wed, 18 Sep 96 11:49:53 EDT Message-Id: <9609181549.AA17738@sunwise.UWaterloo.ca.fluidnet> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] From: mahmud@sunwise.UWaterloo.ca (Mahmud Ashrafizaadeh) To: voelker@cs.washington.edu Subject: Emacs on W95??? Date: Wed, 18 Sep 96 11:49:52 EDT Dear Geoff Voelker: I have installed Emacs for win32 on a couple of our PC's and I am running into some problems! I looked at the readme file and I noticed that it is O.K. with you if people ask you their problems with the program directly. I hope it is still O.k. and I am not disturbing your work. First of all, the Emacs itself seems to work fine but here are the problems: (a) On some PC's if we try to run any of the commands in the TeX menu (e.g. tex file, tex view) while editting a latex or tex file it hungs! nothing works any more and you cannot even exit emacs or kill it! (b) On some other PC's this part works, so we are able to run tex on a file but when we exit Emacs and want to shut down the computer W95 complains that some programs are still running and should be terminated before shutting down the system and the system hungs here and we have to turn off the computer manually! There is another problem on these PC's which is similar to the problem in part (a). If we spell check the buffer (we have installed ispell) and then try to run tex from the menu then Emacs hungs and nothing works (same as part (a). Are we missing something? Is there anything we can do to fix these problems? Since I don't want to bother you again, let me ask you one more question. How do I add an item to a menu? (In particular I want to add dvips to my tex menu). Many thanks in advance. mahmud Ashrafizaadeh Dept. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Ont., Canada