From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: error: Execution of bibtex2html Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:10:16 -0500 Message-ID: <5760.1352261416@alphaville> References: <20121106164332.GC20216@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> <20121106210950.GA31782@panahar> <87bofaxw46.fsf@gmail.com> <20121107025721.GA12038@panahar> <87a9uujds2.fsf@yagnesh.org> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44915) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVwy4-0001lS-I8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:10:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVwy3-0003Wi-E3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:10:20 -0500 Received: from g4t0017.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.20]:27168) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVwy3-0003We-98 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:10:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message from Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala of "Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:24:45 +0900." <87a9uujds2.fsf@yagnesh.org> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala wrote: > > Hello Vikas, > > On 11 07 2012, Vikas Rawal wrote: > > >> > Sorry, that was a typo. I am able to directly run bibtex2html from the > >> > bash shell prompt. ECHO $PATH shows /usr/local/bin. > >> > >> What does 'which bibtex2html' show? > >> > > > > from within M-x shell: > > As Nick said in his previous mail, if the shell has executable in its path > doesn't ensure emacs to find it. > As an amendment to my previous note, normally, if the shell inside emacs can find the executable, then emacs should be able to find it too. There are some abnormal situations however (e.g. defining PATH in .bashrc or equiv - yecchh) that would cause the shell to find it whereas emacs would not be able to. So Yagnesh is correct in asking for more checking. Nick > in your emacs, > M-: (executable-find "bibtex2html") > > to see whether emacs can find the executable, if it doesn't, add the following > in your .emacs > > (add-to-list 'exec-path "/path/to/your/bibtex2html/") >