Nick Dokos writes: > Fatma Başak Aydemir 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? Nope - this is a "feature" since Yosemite. Cheers, Rainer > >> 27/10/15 14:43 tarihinde Peter Davis yazdı: >>> Rainer M Krug writes: >>> >>>> Envoyé de mon iPhone >>>> >>>>> Le 27 oct. 2015 à 01:14, Nick Dokos a écrit : >>>>> >>>>> Peter Davis writes: >>>>> >>>>>> Nick Dokos 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 > > > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: Rainer@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug PGP: 0x0F52F982