From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rainer M Krug Subject: Re: pdflatex not found? Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:58:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: <6sw6c7bnbke8ah.fsf@pfdstudio.com> <562F826B.1080802@gmail.com> <871tcg7272.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58589) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr6dX-0000Iz-QU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:58:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr6dT-0007fg-OD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:58:11 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com ([209.85.212.182]:34707) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr6dT-0007fa-BH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:58:07 -0400 Received: by wikq8 with SMTP id q8so218339589wik.1 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 08:58:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (John Kitchin's message of "Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:51:14 -0400") 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: John Kitchin Cc: Nick Dokos , "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable John Kitchin 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 wrote: > >> Fatma Ba=C5=9Fak 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? >> >> > 27/10/15 14:43 tarihinde Peter Davis yazd=C4=B1: >> >> Rainer M Krug > writes: >> >> >> >>> Envoy=C3=A9 de mon iPhone >> >>> >> >>>> Le 27 oct. 2015 =C3=A0 01:14, Nick Dokos > >> a =C3=A9crit : >> >>>> >> >>>> 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 do= es >> >>>> 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 >> >> >> >> =2D-=20 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWL58MAAoJENvXNx4PUvmC5o8H/0wTzhvH4HeeV5IakJ5XNJlZ HcUdaSlS4hEa6U2gg94Lwh9ur9B+npfdnqQ5t9m3YaX6zP20Jn0p5nKTh7j8tx/u ET+8wCHwCIZSwnlQrmnAXIS/ZilmyGAKhBI+pih1G8wZCvy++GBIHMzomFqi7ONC scS6wZlrdk8iFaPFOZsutY8fQoA6JUqFw6GN4ZU1oRttcoBFGmCu/PgstFP/ToJq iFXuEJMFqBznnywXQ/B2oFc56kPFpoJfaSuFXiV0n0kkTi6VNIWaOADIs4TBjqyA juDgACdfVeZMCqZ6+inoFgFRWG6Nxpc+zWqyjyB0refeFzd56oqQGMrZz2R2h6o= =wEvV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--