Mosè Giordano <m...@gnu.org> writes: > 2015-05-02 8:53 GMT+02:00 Tassilo Horn <t...@gnu.org>: >> Mosè Giordano <m...@gnu.org> writes: >> >>> Reading more thoroughly `TeX-search-files-kpathsea' I see that >>> `TeX-kpathsea-path-delimiter' is set after getting the output of a >>> `kpsewhich' call, instead we need the separator before calling it. >> >> Exactly. >> >>> The kpathsea manual says [1] the separator is ";" on Windows, ":" >>> otherwise, >> >> That's what I've also read. > > How about `path-separator'? > >>> so we could set the default value of `TeX-kpathsea-path-delimiter' >>> looking at Emacs `system-type' variable, instead of the t (autodect), >>> what do you think? >> >> I think so, although I guess there has be a reason for this >> auto-detection at some point in time. > > David you introduced `TeX-kpathsea-path-delimiter', could you please > explain why that autodetect mechanism is better than using > `path-separator'?
Why would Kpathsea heed an Emacs variable? > Are there notable corner cases (I don't know what may happen when > running Emacs under Cygwin, for one)? Cygwin tends to have : as path separator and / as directory separator. So if you are running a Cygwin Emacs with Mingw32 TeX or vice versa, you don't get the paths to match. And Kpathsea may be independently reconfigured regarding its path separator IIRC. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list auctex@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
