How to browse .tex project by line numbers in Debian?

Question

I am using \inputs in my main.tex. I get the following error/warning but it is difficult for me to find the line 1061 because it is in \input files. I really would like to find it. Now, I am using Gedit but Geany sometimes, but I have not found anything related to the debugging; I think IDE must be a solution here but not sure which; maybe, some KDE product

(\end occurred inside a group at level 1)

### simple group (level 1) entered at line 1061 ({)
### bottom level
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on main.pdf (14 pages).

Things not helping

xelatex -file-line-error because \input used
...

OS: Debian 8.5
Window manager: Gnome 3.14
TeXLive: 2016
Execution engine: XeLaTeX

The question does not make any sense. Based on experience, it does not make any sense to ask for improvement. I'm casting a close vote. — yo', Sep 21 '16 at 17:42
Do you mean: pdflatex -file-line-error mytexfile.tex? (Change pdflatex to the appropriate command.) See man pdftex for your options. — jon, Sep 21 '16 at 17:50
I'm surprised. What happens? Can you give some code and a sense of what error you receive? — jon, Sep 21 '16 at 18:02
xelatex -file-line-error works, but I'm afraid it is useless in this case, because the message would be exactly the same. Comment out all \input and uncomment them one by one until you find the faulty file. — egreg, Sep 21 '16 at 18:11
Masi, you are using LaTeX for quite a while, and i notice your programming experience is influencing your questions. While a regular user just asks for help, you give extra information and insights. Almost all of them are completely useless, though. When LaTeX gives an error, the document f*cked up, not the software. — Johannes_B, Sep 21 '16 at 18:22
if you use the search feature here, and enter "line 1061", you will find that this error has been localized to the package algorithm2e, which has a spurious open brace on line 1061. several people have tried to contact the maintainer, who isn't answering. here is one case where i would recommend making a change in the .sty, giving it another name (perhaps myalgorithm2e) and putting a comment into any document that uses it to say what has been done. — barbara beeton, Sep 21 '16 at 19:20
@barbarabeeton You are right. The package of algorithm2e is causing the problem here too http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/330698/13173 — Léo Léopold Hertz 준영, Sep 21 '16 at 19:34
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the issue is about a bug in a package already made known to the developer, see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/299516/ — egreg, Sep 21 '16 at 21:02

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 21 '16 at 18:30

I can not guess what the reference to KDE in your question refers to (why would KDE include a TeX debugger?), but reading the log doesn't require any special tools, and is clearly independent of your operating system.

Add

\tracingonline1\tracinggroups1

so that groups are traced then

if your main file is like

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
\tracingonline1\tracinggroups1
aaa

\input{\jobname a}


\input{\jobname b}

bbb

\end{document}

with maina.tex being

and mainb.tex being

 bbbb

then the log and terminal will show

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./main.tex
LaTeX2e <2016/03/31> patch level 3
Babel <3.9r> and hyphenation patterns for 83 language(s) loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (./main.aux)
(./maina.tex{entering simple group (level 1) at line 2}
) (./mainb.tex){entering output group (level 2) at line 15}
{entering vbox group (level 3) at line 15}
{leaving vbox group (level 3) entered at line 15}
{entering semi simple group (level 3) at line 15}
{entering vbox group (level 4) at line 15}
{entering hbox group (level 5) at line 15}
{leaving hbox group (level 5) entered at line 15}
{entering vbox group (level 5) at line 15}
{entering vbox group (level 6) at line 15}
{entering adjusted hbox group (level 7) at line 15}
{leaving adjusted hbox group (level 7) entered at line 15}
{leaving vbox group (level 6) entered at line 15}
{entering adjusted hbox group (level 6) at line 15}
{leaving adjusted hbox group (level 6) entered at line 15}
{leaving vbox group (level 5) entered at line 15}
{leaving vbox group (level 4) entered at line 15}
[1{/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]{leavi
ng semi simple group (level 3) entered at line 15}
{entering semi simple group (level 3) at line 15}
{leaving semi simple group (level 3) entered at line 15}
{entering semi simple group (level 3) at line 15}
{leaving semi simple group (level 3) entered at line 15}
{leaving output group (level 2) entered at line 15}
{entering vbox group (level 2) at line 15}
{leaving vbox group (level 2) entered at line 15}
{entering output group (level 2) at line 15}
{entering semi simple group (level 3) at line 15}
{leaving semi simple group (level 3) entered at line 15}
{leaving output group (level 2) entered at line 15}
{entering semi simple group (level 2) at line 15}
(./main.aux){leaving semi simple group (level 2) entered at line 15}
{entering output group (level 2) at line 15}
{entering vbox group (level 3) at line 15}
{leaving vbox group (level 3) entered at line 15}
{leaving output group (level 2) entered at line 15}
 )
(\end occurred inside a group at level 1)

### simple group (level 1) entered at line 2 ({)
### bottom level</usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts
/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on main.pdf (1 page, 9993 bytes).
Transcript written on main.log.

The error message tells you the problem is a simple group, that is { at level one (that is not nested in another group) so you can ignore all the group trace except level 1 simple groups.

Just quickly scanning the trace matching "entering" and "leaving" pairs shows that the "entering" with no matching "leaving" is

 (./maina.tex{entering simple group (level 1) at line 2}

so there you have it, the unmatched { is on line 2 of maina.tex

By this method, I think I can confirm the error is coming from aaltothesis .cls file where some mistakes cause the complication, since even with empty content in \begin{document} [empty here] \end{document} causes the error with exactly the same line number. Related: http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/330686/13173 - - How can you apply this line number inspection to .cls file? — Léo Léopold Hertz 준영, Sep 21 '16 at 18:49

How to browse .tex project by line numbers in Debian?

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