[AUCTeX] Re: Trouble with Find Documentation

[Alan Ristow]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Alan Ristow <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Thanks for the info. Perhaps I'll experiment more with XEmacs once I
> > get everything working properly in Emacs, as I'd prefer to use
> > XEmacs in the long run. For now, I'll just forget about it.
>
> The TeX-doc stuff apparently works only with CVS Emacs in 11.83
> (probably reason to release something new soon).   Generally, new
> features get most testing with that platform.  Emacs 21.4 is next
> likely to work reasonable, XEmacs least.  The case where something is
> completely borked (for which I would not assign blame always to XEmacs
> itself: it is partly just that most of AUCTeX developers are
> Emacs-centric) certainly tends to happen a lot more with XEmacs.   It
> already helps deinstalling any AUCTeX from the Sumo tarball and
> installing the XEmacs package we provide for download on the download
> area of AUCTeX.

I discovered that the hard way a couple of days ago. I learned a lot 
about XEmacs in the process, and that the differences between Emacs and 
XEmacs are greater than I ever guessed, so it was at least productive.

> But if AUCTeX is your main application, it could really be a good idea
> to switch to CVS Emacs.

CVS Emacs is all I used yesterday -- I'm having a much easier time with 
it than I am with XEmacs. I guess I'll stick with it for the foreseeable 
future....

Alan