[OS X Emacs] Handling AucTeX errors

[Enrico Franconi]

On 29 Jul 2009, at 08:22, David Reitter wrote:

> On Jul 28, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Enrico Franconi wrote:
>
>> With Aquamacs/Cocoa: whenever I hit "^C`" to get the explanation of  
>> a LaTeX error, Aquamacs opens a new tab called "Web2C 7.5.7"  
>> instead of just keeping in focus the tab with the source LaTeX file  
>> (see attachment, if it goes through the mailing list). In the  
>> carbon Aquamacs everything works as it should.
>
> I've seen this on occasion, too, with certain tex files at least.  I  
> have no idea where this is coming from and nobody has debugged it.   
> If you could take a look to find a fix, that'd be great.

The fix is (from the auctex forum):

(add-hook
  'LaTeX-mode-hook
  (lambda nil
    (setq LaTeX-command "latex -file-line-error")))

cheers
--e.