Error with inserting citation in LaTeX file: "No such file or directory tex-site"

[ashton314]

Error with inserting citation in LaTeX file: "No such file or directory tex-site"

[ultronozm]

Try this:

(use-package latex
  :elpaca  (auctex
            :files ("*.el" "*.info" "dir"
                    "doc" "etc" "images" "latex" "style")
            :pre-build 
            (("./autogen.sh")
             ("./configure" "--with-texmf-dir=$(dirname $(kpsexpand '$TEXMFHOME'))")
             ("make")
             ("make" "install")))
  :demand)

[bdarcus]

I don't really use citar with latex-mode; updating my Emacs build to test this.

Any chance this earlier issue sheds any light?

#370

I doubt it, since it seems you are installing AucTeX ...

[bdarcus]

So I can reproduce it, but have no idea what's going on. The backtrace, IUC, shows that AucTeX is trying load that file; not citar. We rely on AucTeX to parse the citations and such.

Any ideas @aikrahguzar?

[bdarcus]

This, from straight, may have some hints?

radian-software/straight.el#240

EDIT: seems you ran into this issue before with Elpaca?

progfolio/elpaca#14

But it's been awhile, so the solution prog provides doesn't work.

[ashton314]

auctex is such a headache—I forget why I had it installed in the first place. I think I wanted some nice capf functionality, but it's just not worth it. (Wasn't good with auctex to begin with.)

Something funny happened the first time I tried using citar without auctex, so I installed it again. But after removing it from that example file I sent, citar worked like a charm.

Ugh. Auctex, why can't you just be normal?!

[ashton314]

Oh! New problem! Sorry @bdarcus .

Without Auctex, the popup shows as normal. However, when I select a citation, I get an error that says "Please install AUTeX".

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Please install AUCTeX")
  error("Please install AUCTeX")
  citar-latex--macro-bounds()
  citar-latex-insert-citation(("culpepperFortifyingMacros2012") nil nil)
  citar--major-mode-function(insert-citation ignore ("culpepperFortifyingMacros2012") nil)
  citar-insert-citation(("culpepperFortifyingMacros2012") nil)
  funcall-interactively(citar-insert-citation ("culpepperFortifyingMacros2012") nil)
  command-execute(citar-insert-citation)

[bdarcus]

Yeah, so you'll have to figure out how to install it with elpaca.

Maybe ask a follow-up to that issue?

[ashton314]

Sorry—I missed a message in this thread. I bet I can figure it out now. I'll let you know if it goes sideways. Thank you so much for your help and the speedy response!