[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 should one do??

-- O.L.