Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:37:46 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g766aiVP021820 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:36:45 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g766Mo2T021526; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:22:50 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C23D13.C646D900" Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g75M04xT004568; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:22:00 +0200 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 4163 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:22:00 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g766M0uV006101 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:22:00 +0200 Received: from mail14c.sanjose14-verio.com (mail14c.sanjose14-verio.com [128.121.143.6]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g766Lm2T021430 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:21:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from www.w3k.org (128.121.78.228) by mail14c.sanjose14-verio.com (RS ver 1.0.63s) with SMTP id 052655 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 02:21:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: References: <200207221857.g6MIv9iZ010706@bilbo.localnet> <878z46p1yi.fsf@becket.becket.net> <200207162352.g6GNq9Ow031038@bilbo.localnet> <878z46p1yi.fsf@becket.becket.net> Return-Path: X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Aug 2002 06:37:46.0419 (UTC) FILETIME=[C686C830:01C23D13] X-Sender: wkorg0@w3k.org X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) x-loop-detect: 1 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: LaTeX Error: which file? Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 07:21:16 +0100 Message-ID: A<5.1.0.14.0.20020805230706.0352eec0@w3k.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: LaTeX Error: which file? Thread-Index: AcI9E8axW+EfIJMKQgiodqmy0xVTtA== From: "Julius Smith" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4349 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C23D13.C646D900 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable When LaTeX encounters an error, we see something like the following: ! LaTeX Error: \begin{itemize} on input line 21 ended by = \end{document}. However, I typically have many "\input" statements, so it is often = annoying to figure out which file contains the offending line. (In an emacs = shell, I routinely type "\C-u\C-r([a-z]" to get back to the last opened file, = but this is only right some of the time.) It seems it should not be hard to improve the error message to say instead ! LaTeX Error: \begin{itemize} on input line 21 in foo.tex ended by \end{document}. As an optimization, if only one user file has been seen, "in foo.tex" = could be suppressed. Thanks for your consideration, Julius ------_=_NextPart_001_01C23D13.C646D900 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable LaTeX Error: which file?

When LaTeX encounters an error, we see something like = the following:

     ! LaTeX Error: = \begin{itemize} on input line 21 ended by \end{document}.

However, I typically have many "\input" = statements, so it is often annoying
to figure out which file contains the offending = line.  (In an emacs shell,
I routinely type "\C-u\C-r([a-z]" to get = back to the last opened file, but
this is only right some of the time.)  It seems = it should not be hard to
improve the error message to say instead

   ! LaTeX Error: \begin{itemize} on input = line 21 in foo.tex ended by
\end{document}.

As an optimization, if only one user file has been = seen, "in foo.tex" could
be suppressed.

Thanks for your consideration,
Julius

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