2015-05-02 21:04 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: > 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?
Not that kpathsea should care about an Emacs variable, but _if_ the separator is chosen with the same logic in both programs that would be fine. Anyway, we need a method to guess the correct separator before calling kpsewhich, see `TeX-parse-path' and `TeX-tree-expand'. In the former AUCTeX looks at the structure of an environment variable, in the latter to the value of `system-type'. Bye, Mosè _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list auctex@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex