Re: The correct patch

[Olive]

Karl Berry wrote:

>     In this patch I have replaced the call to "comint-quote-argument" 
with     "shell-quote-argument" which I think is much better.
>
> That part seems fine, but can you explain this part of the patch?
>
> !   (setq tex-trailer "\\end\\s-*{document}\n")
> --- 781,787 ----
> !   (setq tex-trailer "\\end{document}\n")


tex-trailer is the string to insert at the end of a region to build the 
temporary file to compile. It is not a regular expression to search; 
just a normal string to insert.

>
> I'm not saying it's wrong, just want to understand it, and it seems
> faster to ask you than research it from scratch :).  I see
> tex-end-of-header has the \\s-*.


Yes, tex-end-of-header is the string to search in the origial document 
to find the \begin{document}: this is a regular expression.

To answer your previous question, my version of TeX fail with filename 
with space (I says it fails as is, I have not tried to play with the 
catcode) but I know that miktex is fine with. But as you says this is 
off topic.

[oesser@pcolivier ~]$ latex "this is a try.tex"
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
! I can't find file `this'.
<*> this
         is a try.tex
Please type another input file name:

Sincerely,

Olive