[tex-live] AUCTeX state

[George N. White III]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:44 AM, David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> wrote:
>
>  Hi, I find the following:
>
>  dak at lisa:/lisa/texlive/Master$ git ls-files  *auctex*
>
>  source/emacs+auctex-src-2006-10-10.zip
>  support/emacs-22.1+auctex-11.85-win32.zip
>  texmf-dist/tex/latex/preview/prauctex.cfg
>  texmf-dist/tex/latex/preview/prauctex.def
>  texmf-doc/doc/polish/tex-virtual-academy-pl/prog/auctex.html
>
>  dak at lisa:/lisa/texlive/Master$ git ls-files  *preview-latex*
>
>  support/preview-latex.zip
>
>
>  Now... The above source of emacs+auctex does not correspond to the
>  binary distribution.  Most likely both should be updated to the current
>  offering.  support/preview-latex.zip contains version 0.9 of
>  preview-latex which is stoneage (preview-latex has been integrated into
>  AUCTeX for quite a bit of time now).  It should be removed.
>
>  The current Windows offering consists of
>  <URL:http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/auctex-11.85-e22.2-msw.zip>
>  (which can be unzipped into a compiled MS Windows Emacs tree) with the
>  source (all systems)
>  <URL:http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/auctex-11.85.zip>.
>
>  You would apply it to Emacs 22.2 (the Windows binary is at
>  <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-22.2-bin-i386.zip>) with
>  the source at
>  <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/libXpm-3.5.7-w32-src.zip> and
>  <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-22.2.tar.gz>.
>
>  Does this help?  Or is it an upstream (CTAN) problem?

It is worth mentioning Vincent Goulet's emacs-22.2 Windows binaries with ESS,
AucTeX, aspell (english+french dictionaries), etc.:

<http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/>

-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia