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7.3 Catching the errors

Once you've formatted your document you may `debug' it, i.e. browse through the errors (La)TeX reported.

Command: TeX-next-error
(C-c `) Go to the next error reported by TeX. The view will be split in two, with the cursor placed as close as possible to the error in the top view. In the bottom view, the error message will be displayed along with some explanatory text.

Normally AUCTeX will only report real errors, but you may as well ask it to report `bad boxes' as well.

Command: TeX-toggle-debug-bad-boxes
(C-c C-w) Toggle whether AUCTeX should stop at bad boxes (i.e. over/under full boxes) as well as at normal errors.

As default, AUCTeX will display that special `*help*' buffer containing the error reported by TeX along with the documentation. There is however an `expert' option, which allows you to display the real TeX output.

User Option: TeX-display-help
When non-nil AUCTeX will automatically display a help text whenever an error is encountered using TeX-next-error (C-c `).



This document was generated by Davide G. M. Salvetti on February, 5 2005 using texi2html