Mosè Giordano <m...@gnu.org> writes: >> Thanks for the report. Mosè, it seems the error comes from the code >> you added in commit 59ccf3416d53064785d3feee8bcbf8074612386a which >> checks if the viewer executable actually exists. >> >> Shawn uses windows where the viewer is "start". Maybe that's some >> internal command you cannot find with `executable-find'? E.g., >> something like a shell builtin command like "alias" in bash/zsh? > > We need to know which is the problem: if it's what you suggested > (start is not strictly a binary and `find-executable' cannot find it) > then we can just remove start from the list of executable to be > checked.
I just tested on a Windows machine here at my university, and (executable-find "start") indeed returns nil. > Admittedly, I don't use Windows and I wasn't able to test the change > on that system, but I made a research and I understood that "start" > was a system program or something like that. Again, if it's not an > executable, remove the third element of the "start" item in > `TeX-view-program-list-builtin' and we'll need to fix it also > upstream. I did that now in the auctex git repository. Um, could you please teach me how to sync that change to ELPA? I know there's something better than manual diff/patch, no? Bye, Tassilo _______________________________________________ bug-auctex mailing list bug-auctex@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-auctex
