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From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
To: Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>
Cc: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: pdflatex not found?
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:40:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m28u6oe2vf.fsf@krugs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6sw6c7bnbke8ah.fsf@pfdstudio.com> (Peter Davis's message of "Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:43:34 -0400")

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Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:

> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Envoyé de mon iPhone
>>
>>> Le 27 oct. 2015 à 01:14, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> a écrit :
>>> 
>>> Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>>> ...
>>> Yes, probably, but if I can get people to submit backtraces when getting
>>> an error, we can cut down the email volume by a factor of 2.43 (making up
>>> fictitious data to bolster my case...) In all seriousness, at least it
>>> shows that you are not going down some strange path.
>
> I think the actual number is more like 2.17, but let's not quibble.
>
>>> 
>>> What happens if you say M-x shell-command RET pdflatex RET?
>
> Not found.
>
>>> Somebody suggested running "which pdflatex" in your shell - what does
>>> that say?
>
> Still not found. However, adding it to ~/.tcshrc seems to fix the problem. That makes sense, but leaves two questions:
>
> 1) Why am I able to run pdflatex (without specifying the path) just from the shell running in a terminal window?
>
> 2) What's the point of defining the emacs exec-path, since I needed to define the shell's PATH variable anyway?
>
>>> And you say it should be in /usr/texbin - what happens if you invoke
>>> it with an absolute path: "/usr/texbin/pdflatex" in your shell?
>>
>> Imiight have missed it - but which OS are you using?
>
> Sorry. It's OS X 10.10.5, using GNU Emacs 24.5.1

I thought so.

OK - you have pdflatex in the terminal? If yes, you have to bring the
PATH from the terminal into emacs. I use

I use the package exec-path-from-shell for this (and use-package in general):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(use-package exec-path-from-shell
  :ensure t
  :config 
  (exec-path-from-shell-initialize)
  (exec-path-from-shell-copy-env "LC_ALL")
  (exec-path-from-shell-copy-env "LANG")
  )
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

so
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(require 'exec-path-to-shell)
(exec-path-from-shell-initialize)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

should do this.

Cheers,

Rainer


>
> Thanks!
> -pd

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-27 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-27 13:43 pdflatex not found? Peter Davis
2015-10-27 13:55 ` Fatma Başak Aydemir
2015-10-27 15:37   ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 15:48     ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 15:51     ` John Kitchin
2015-10-27 15:58       ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 16:06         ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-10-28 12:40           ` Alan Schmitt
2015-10-27 15:44   ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 16:19     ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 16:45       ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 17:02         ` Peter Davis
2015-10-27 17:50           ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 17:59             ` Peter Davis
2015-10-27 18:30               ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 17:14         ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 15:40 ` Rainer M Krug [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-10-27 16:12 Peter Davis
2015-10-27 16:40 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-26 22:18 Peter Davis
2015-10-27  0:14 ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27  5:45   ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 16:07   ` Charles C. Berry
2015-10-26 19:26 Peter Davis
2015-10-26 19:50 ` John Hendy
2015-10-26 20:29   ` Myles English
2015-10-26 21:43     ` Charles C. Berry
2015-10-26 20:03 ` Nick Dokos

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