From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
To: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>,
"emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: pdflatex not found?
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:58:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vb9scnhw.fsf@krugs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ51ETo4LS=wHNAnKHBUpSV3oOdN+hUig04Sp=VZV2RQQvrkfg@mail.gmail.com> (John Kitchin's message of "Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:51:14 -0400")
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John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> This reminds me that I think I have this problem unless I open Emacs from a
> command line.
Yup - this is one way of circumvent the problem: by starting emacs from
the command line.
>
> On Tuesday, October 27, 2015, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Fatma Başak Aydemir <aydemirfb@gmail.com <javascript:;>> writes:
>>
>> > I do not know the reasons but I had the same problem in the past on OS X.
>> >
>> > exec-path-from-shell package is a nice solution for that.
>> >
>> > https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell
>> >
>>
>> Just the need for a package like that indicates that something is badly
>> broken on OS X, I think. To be fair, it's a mess on Linux as well, but
>> it is possible to make sure that variables you define (and export) in
>> your .profile get propagated to applications started by the DE/WM. In my
>> current installation (Fedora 21), that is done by
>> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common, which does this:
>>
>> [ -r $HOME/.profile ] && . $HOME/.profile
>>
>> Maybe OS X has a "hidden" mechanism like this?
>>
>> > 27/10/15 14:43 tarihinde Peter Davis yazdı:
>> >> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com <javascript:;>> writes:
>> >>
>> >>> Envoyé de mon iPhone
>> >>>
>> >>>> Le 27 oct. 2015 à 01:14, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com <javascript:;>>
>> a écrit :
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com <javascript:;>> writes:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com <javascript:;>> 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?
>> >>
>>
>> FWIW, I never define exec-path explicitly: it is set from my $PATH when
>> emacs starts.
>>
>> --
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-27 15:58 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 [this message]
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
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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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