Re: [AUCTeX] Re: Specifying the TeX tree

[David Kastrup]

Olivier Lefevre <address@hidden> writes:

>> And why don't you set LaTeX-command-style as told? Of course, when
>> you choose to do the wrong things, wrong things will happen.  But this
>> particular problem is not inherent of AUCTeX.
>
> This is needlessly aggressive. You were saying it isn't but by default
> it _is_: I was just explaining what I did the first time. It does work
> if one uses LaTeX-comnand-style but you were advising against
> it... Anyway, so I will take that route.
>
>> Uh, TeX/LaTeX is not "just one application".
>
> I know that, thanks. I meant that AUCTeX is the only application on my
> machine that needs to find TeX et al.

But you may be creating batch files and similar in connection with
TeX, and then AUCTeX won't necessarily come into play at all.  A
solution not using PATH, and even if it is just something like

(unless (member "c:/TeX/bin" exec-path)
  (push "c:/TeX/bin" exec-path)
  (setenv "PATH" (concat "c:/TeX/bin;" (getenv "PATH"))))

in your dotemacs.  Still far from optimal (why should a shell or batch
file inside of Emacs behave different from outside it).

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum