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Re: [O] pdflatex not found?
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Rainer M Krug |
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Re: [O] pdflatex not found? |
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Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:58:03 +0100 |
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John Kitchin <address@hidden> writes:
> This reminds me that I think I have this problem unless I open Emacs from a
> command line.
Yup - this is one way of circumvent the problem: by starting emacs from
the command line.
>
> On Tuesday, October 27, 2015, Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Fatma Başak Aydemir <address@hidden <javascript:;>> writes:
>>
>> > I do not know the reasons but I had the same problem in the past on OS X.
>> >
>> > exec-path-from-shell package is a nice solution for that.
>> >
>> > https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell
>> >
>>
>> Just the need for a package like that indicates that something is badly
>> broken on OS X, I think. To be fair, it's a mess on Linux as well, but
>> it is possible to make sure that variables you define (and export) in
>> your .profile get propagated to applications started by the DE/WM. In my
>> current installation (Fedora 21), that is done by
>> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common, which does this:
>>
>> [ -r $HOME/.profile ] && . $HOME/.profile
>>
>> Maybe OS X has a "hidden" mechanism like this?
>>
>> > 27/10/15 14:43 tarihinde Peter Davis yazdı:
>> >> Rainer M Krug <address@hidden <javascript:;>> writes:
>> >>
>> >>> Envoyé de mon iPhone
>> >>>
>> >>>> Le 27 oct. 2015 à 01:14, Nick Dokos <address@hidden <javascript:;>>
>> a écrit :
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Peter Davis <address@hidden <javascript:;>> writes:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Nick Dokos <address@hidden <javascript:;>> writes:
>> >>>> ...
>> >>>> Yes, probably, but if I can get people to submit backtraces when
>> getting
>> >>>> an error, we can cut down the email volume by a factor of 2.43
>> (making up
>> >>>> fictitious data to bolster my case...) In all seriousness, at least it
>> >>>> shows that you are not going down some strange path.
>> >> I think the actual number is more like 2.17, but let's not quibble.
>> >>
>> >>>> What happens if you say M-x shell-command RET pdflatex RET?
>> >> Not found.
>> >>
>> >>>> Somebody suggested running "which pdflatex" in your shell - what does
>> >>>> that say?
>> >> Still not found. However, adding it to ~/.tcshrc seems to fix the
>> >> problem. That makes sense, but leaves two questions:
>> >>
>> >> 1) Why am I able to run pdflatex (without specifying the path) just
>> >> from the shell running in a terminal window?
>> >>
>> >> 2) What's the point of defining the emacs exec-path, since I needed
>> >> to define the shell's PATH variable anyway?
>> >>
>>
>> FWIW, I never define exec-path explicitly: it is set from my $PATH when
>> emacs starts.
>>
>> --
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>>
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- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, (continued)
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Nick Dokos, 2015/10/26
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Peter Davis, 2015/10/26
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Peter Davis, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Fatma Başak Aydemir, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Nick Dokos, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Rainer M Krug, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, John Kitchin, 2015/10/27
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- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Alan Schmitt, 2015/10/28
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Rainer M Krug, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Nick Dokos, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Rainer M Krug, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Peter Davis, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Nick Dokos, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Peter Davis, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Rainer M Krug, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Nick Dokos, 2015/10/27