On Wed, Nov 29 2017,Ikumi Keita wrote: > Hi Sivaram, thank you for your reply. > >>>>>> Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram....@gmail.com> writes: >>> 1. Have you been experiencing that problem since long before? Or did >>> that begin to occur recently? > >> Recently. I use the elpa package system to install and so far had no >> problems. > >>> 2. What are the values of `TeX-kpathsea-path-delimiter', >>> `TeX-tree-roots', `path-separator' and `system-type' in the buffer >>> where the error occurs? > >> TeX-kpathsea-path-delimiter is : >> TeX-tree-roots is nil >> path-separator is ; >> system-type is 'windows-nt' > >>> 3. On cygwin terminal, what does the command >>> kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMF' >>> output? > >> /usr/share/texmf-site:/etc/texmf:/var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-dist > > OK, I see that the primary reason of the error is the incompatibility > between colon and semicolon. > > According to the lines >> Emacs : GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) >> of 2017-09-17 > and >> system-type is 'windows-nt' > , you are using Emacs built as native w32 application, so Emacs and > AUCTeX think that the path separator is semicolon ";" (w32 style). > > To the contrary, the TeX distribution you are using is cygwin > application, which separates the path with colon ":" (unix style) > according to these lines: >> And (executable-find "kpsewhich") is "c:/cygwin/bin/kpsewhich.exe" >
[snipped 23 lines] In case it was missed, the issue happens *only* while trying to do C-c C-e to get started with a documentclass skeletal template. Any existing tex file compiles cleanly within Emacs with Auctex C-c C-c into pdf; windows-nt Emacs and cygwin texlive. sivaram -- _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list auctex@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex