Quiet mode for pdfLaTeX in emacs - emacs

I've begun to use emacs as a pdfLaTeX writer/compiler, which is just brilliant.
However, whenever I execute TeX file (C-c C-f), which currently executes the following:
(setq latex-run-command "pdflatex")
I get an awful lot of verbose output from pdfLaTeX.
Is there a way to change this behaviour? I thought of (setq latex-run-command "pdflatex -interaction=batchmode") but this doesn't seem to do the trick.

When doing LaTex in emacs you should use the package named AUCTeX. This fixes your problem and has a lot of extra functionality.

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I'm having issues setting up ansi-term in emacs [duplicate]

I use ansi-term for my normal terminal sessions. I tend to use unicode characters in my prompt to do things like set the trailing character based on the type of source control I'm using.
I use the character "±" as my prompt for git repositories.
In Emacs' ansi-term, my prompt isn't rendered as unicode, and shows as "\302\261". Displaying the current coding system shows that it defaults to utf-8-unix for input to the process, but I get raw binary as the decoding output. I can hit C-c RET p to change the encoding and decoding coding systems. I'm drawing a blank as to how to set this automatically when I start a terminal? I've tried adding to term-mode-hook to set the buffer's coding system to no avail. I think I've found what I'm looking for in term.el, but I don't care to tweak the distribution elisp, and it appears the raw binary was added to fix a bug somewhere else.
EDIT: This was unclear originally. I'm having issues setting the default process coding system for ansi-term running under Cocoa-ized Emacs 23.3 on MacOS. Emacs itself isn't running in a terminal, my terminal is running in Emacs.
The following worked for me:
(add-hook 'term-exec-hook
(function
(lambda ()
(set-buffer-process-coding-system 'utf-8-unix 'utf-8-unix))))
ansi-term seems to ignore the default-process-coding-system variable, so I had to set it buffer-locally after it executes my shell.
After getting a better understanding of term.el, the following works:
(defadvice ansi-term (after advise-ansi-term-coding-system)
(set-buffer-process-coding-system 'utf-8-unix 'utf-8-unix))
(ad-activate 'ansi-term)
Trying this with term-mode-hook is broken because in term.el, term-mode-hook is called before switching to the terminal buffer, so set-buffer-process-coding-system breaks due to the lack of a process associated with the buffer.
Try
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
That's C-x RET t not C-x RET p.
So C-x RET p helps?
Unless C-h v default-process-coding-system is (utf-8-unix . utf-8-unix) try
(setq default-process-coding-system '(utf-8-unix . utf-8-unix))

org-mode broken dynamic clock: Symbol's function definition is void: org-defvaralias

For months I've been enjoying use of the org dynamic clock block (C-c C-x C-r) to help with my hour clocking. Suddenly I find it's not working, though. The only things I've changed is downloading the list-packages org-contrib and org-mode.
M-x org-version
Org-mode version 7.8.11
Attempt to update/add dynamic block (C-c C-x C-r)
Symbol's function definition is void: org-defvaralias
I tried to do manual execution of defuns in some of the org .el files, but that just made things worse. Any suggestions on the cleanest way to fix this?
I actually can't even clock-in anymore, with the same error.
I have verified that this is a result of the org-contrib install from ELPA, which seems to break it. This is sad, since I was putting good use to other org-contrib files.
I finally got around to fixing this. The key resource was http://orgmode.org/manual/Installation.html, and the solution boils down to two things I was doing wrong when I tried to install through the list-packages:
Remember to start have emacs running without having opened ANY org files or org-config settings. Best way to do this is M-xkill-emacs and start again with emacs -q.
Add to the top of your .emacs file:
;; Configure before loading org mode (package-initialize)
(package-initialize)
I've written a little more about it here.
I don't know if that helps, but you could try:
M-x load-library RET org-compat RET.
Even if it works, this is not the solution, simply an ugly workaround.
Try asking your question on the orgmode mailing list, it gets more audience there.

running scheme from emacs

I'm a newbie to LISP.
I am attempting to invoke the scheme interpreter from within emacs (version 23 running on windows). I loaded the xscheme library by telling emacs to M-x load-library and then entering xscheme at the prompt in the minibuffer. The library loaded, and then I issued the M-x run-scheme command. (I realize that all this loading can be done from .emacs at startup, but I am not concerned with that at the moment.)
So far so good - the *scheme* buffer has been created, and now I'm hoping that I'm able to talk to the scheme interpreter.
However, when I try to evaluate something in that *scheme*buffer (e.g. (define shoe-size 14)), I get this Output file descriptor of scheme is closed message in the minibuffer.
Does anybody know how to fix this in emacs?
(Also, how does one set the major-mode as REPL in the *scheme* buffer?)
Thank you.
Try setting the scheme-program-name variable to the path to your Scheme interpreter. The major-mode of the scheme buffer is probably just comint and you cannot do much about it unless you switch to something more capable like Geiser - something that I'd recommend you do.
Add this line to your .emacs file:
(setq scheme-program-name "gsi")
(Replace "gsi" with the name of your Scheme interpreter.)
You can then start the interpreter with M-x run-scheme. You can evaluate pieces of code by using C-x C-e (to evaluate the sexp before the point) or with C-M-x to evaluate the sexp you're in right now. You can also load a file with C-c C-l.
I'll start by saying that I'm very new to programming, scheme and SICP, but I'm trying to work through the course and watch the lectures that are online.
I'm running emacs on Ubuntu 12.10 and I really wanted to get MIT scheme working in emacs instead of relying on Edwin.
The above tips didn't work for me, but here's the step-by-step instructions that did work:
Install emacs 24 from the Ubuntu Software Center (search "emacs" and install it!)
Open a terminal (ALT + CTRL + t)
Go to your home directory (cd ~)
Open the hidden file .emacs in gedit (gedit .emacs)
On the first line of the file, type exactly what's after the colon: (require 'xscheme)
Save the changes to .emacs
That's it!!!
You can now open .scm files in emacs and use commands like C-x C-e.
*directions courtesy of http://alexott.net/en/writings/emacs-devenv/EmacsScheme.html#sec14
My guess is that it's just a known issue I still dunno how to sort that out (it's out of my current skills) but I got a macro that probably helps: just after writing the s-exp you can do Cc-Cz (it calls the geiser REPL) then C-spc, C-M-b, M-w, C-x-o, C-y and RET.
There are a variation (same, placed just after writing the s-exp): C-spc, C-M-b, M-w, C-c Cz, C-y and RET

Customizing Literate Haskell + LaTeX mode

I'm having a hard time forcing literate-haskell-mode to produce PDFlatex output by default. When I use C-c C-t C-f it just parses the lhs file with latex binary producing dvi. I know I can always use the shell to manually run pdflatex whatever.lhs, but that's not the emacs way. There must be a way of customizing the default C-c C-t C-f behavior, but I've been googling and searching, and I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
Anyone?
Cheers;
Piotr
I guess this uses LaTeX-mode in the backend so probably something like this should help:
(setq TeX-PDF-mode t)
This tell LaTeX-mode to use pdflatex by default.

In Emacs, how do I figure out which package is loading tramp?

I have a strange interaction with tramp and cygwin-mount (I think: Emacs: Tab completion of file name appends an extra i:\cygwin). Because of this, I want to disable tramp. I'm unable to find anything in my .emacs which is loading tramp explicitly. I can see "Loading tramp..." when I hit a tab in the find-file minibuffer. I'd like to figure out what package is causing the loading of tramp and disable that. How do I go about doing this? I tried searching for (require 'tramp) but couldn't find anything interesting. The only other option I can think of is to comment out bits of my .emacs one-by-one and see which one works - but this is so brute-force, I'd like a cleverer (and easier) way.
What a great question! If only because I was not aware of the function (eval-after-load file form) which will enable you to write code like the following and put it in your .emacs file:
(eval-after-load "tramp"
'(debug))
Which will, in brute force form, vomit a backtrace in your window and reveal the offending library.
I think you'll find that tramp is turned on by default. If you do:
M-x customize-apropos
Customize (regexp): tramp
('Customize (regexp):' is the prompt from emacs) you'll see two variables listed (at least I do in emacs 23), something like:
If you set tramp-mode to 'off', save for future sessions, and restart emacs tramp should no longer be loaded. I believe you can just turning it off in the current session should allow you to test this, but this doesn't always work with customize variables, although it should do with something like tramp that is part of the standard emacs distribution.
I don't have emacs 22 installed any more, but something similar should work for that too.
I had a similar problem with tramp, when one day I found
"/C:\...\debuglog.txt" on my system.
Because of that file, auto-complete was invoking tramp each time
I entered "/". And tramp was of course giving an error.
auto-complete was calling
(expand-file-name ...)
which, because of the current file-name-handler-alist, was calling tramp.
My solution was:
(delete-if
(lambda (x)
(or (eq (cdr x) 'tramp-completion-file-name-handler)
(eq (cdr x) 'tramp-file-name-handler)))
file-name-handler-alist)
Instrument find-file for debugging and/or instrument your init file for debugging. Then you can step through the loading and see where the tramp stuff is loaded.