Re: LaTeX package completion not working properly

[Brian Elmegaard]

Hi Tassilo

Thanks - this was a good hint.

I found that kpathsea is mentioned in tex-mik.el.

It was not clear to me from the installation instructions that I should
(require 'tex-mik)
in .emacs, but that made it work.

Many thanks for your help,
Brian

On 21-04-2020 20:23, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Brian Elmegaard <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> > This is the output of
> > C-x C-e (TeX-macro-global) RET
> >
> > ("c:/Users/brel/AppData/Local/Programs/MiKTeX 2.9/tex/"
> > "c:/Users/brel/AppData/Local/Programs/MiKTeX 2.9/bibtex/bst/")
> >
> > so this looks correct, I guess.
> Yes, looks good to me, too.
>
> > I also have kpsewhich in %PATH%.
> >
> > On the other hand I do not have the environment variable SYSTEXMF
> > set. MikTeX does not use this.  Is that a problem?
> No, I don't think so.  TeX-macro-global queries for "$SYSTEXMF"
> "$TEXMFLOCAL" "$TEXMFMAIN" "$TEXMFDIST".
>
> Ok, so lets see further.  The list of LaTeX packages for completion are
> gathered by
>
>    (TeX-search-files-by-type 'texinputs 'global t t)
>
> What does that return in one of you tex buffers?
>
> In my case, that function calls
>
>    (TeX-search-files-kpathsea "${TEXINPUTS.latex}"
>      ("tex" "sty" "cls" "ltx" "texi" "txi" "texinfo" "dtx")
>      'global t t)
>
> which returns the list of all packages.
>
> Maybe in your case TeX-search-files-kpathsea doesn't return anything
> because the TeX-kpathsea-path-delimiter couldn't be configured
> automatically?
>
> In case you know how to use M-x edebug, this is the corner where you
> should have a look at.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo