Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> writes: > Envoyé de mon iPhone > >> Le 27 oct. 2015 à 01:14, Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >> Peter Davis <p...@pfdstudio.com> writes: >> >>> Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> 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 does >> 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? >> And you say it should be in /usr/texbin - what happens if you invoke >> it with an absolute path: "/usr/texbin/pdflatex" in your shell? > > Imiight have missed it - but which OS are you using? Sorry. It's OS X 10.10.5, using GNU Emacs 24.5.1 Thanks! -pd