[AUCTeX] Re: Specifying the TeX tree

[Olivier Lefevre]

> It isn't. 

It is. If I set "Latex Command" to "c:/cygwin/bin/latexe.exe", upon 
running the current document through LaTeX with PDF option set I get:

Running `LaTeX' on `test' with ``pdfc:/cygwin/bin/latex.exe 
"\nonstopmode\input{test.tex}"''
'pdfc:' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

>> Please don't tell me that they just have to be on the PATH...
>
>
> Why not?  That's the way to do this.

That may be the standard way but I don't like polluting the global PATH 
with directories used by just one application: that's just messy. Same 
goes for env. vars: they should be defined where and as needed. I tried 
starting emacs from an emacs.bat script where I augment the PATH 
variable to add the desired directoty but it *still* cannot find it. So, 
what can one do?

Thanks,

-- O.L.



 You could configure a whole path into LaTeX-command-style
> if you really wanted to.  However, that is a bad idea.
>
>
> > and thus you get, e.g., "pdfc:/somepath/latex.exe". So, how does one