Hi Dokos, o What shell are you using? Yagnesh's recommendation assumes > that you are running bash as your shell (presumably on some > Linux/Unix system). Is this assumption correct? >
I am a normal Ubuntu (12.04) user, and recently started to use Emacs (Emacs snapshot) and loving it very much. I am sorry that I do not understand what is "Bash shell". I am starting my Emacs GTK either by right clicking on the .org files or first opening the emacs GTK by clicking on icon. Try starting emacs from a bash > command line.[fn:2] > Now I started emacs from terminal typing $ emacs . Now BIBINPUTS is working with BIBINPUTS lines in .bashrc only (I have removed the BIBINPUTS lines from .profile, to test one by one) THANKS A LOT. IT IS WORKING NOW :) Do I then always need to start emacs from command line ? (I will try with .profile) ============================= The following reply was sent to Yagnesh. I am pasting it below as I understand you also asked these questions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > First of all can you confirm your .bashrc setting is working.? >> >> in the terminal >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> echo $BIBINPUTS > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> > > *Here is the output* > > ~$ echo $BIBINPUTS > .//:/home/USERNAME/bst//:.//:/home/USERNAME/bibFiles//: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > and also can you check what is the value of BIBINPUTS in emacs.? Within >> Emacs >> evaluate the following (either in scratch buffer or with key press `M-:' >> or >> with `M-x eval-expression') >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> (getenv "BIBINPUTS") >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> > > > *OUTPUT* is: nil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > May be the last resort would be setting the variable within your .emacs >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> (setenv "BIBINPUTS" ".:$HOME/bib:") >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> > > I will try this one > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > BTW how you are starting emacs? (command line or gui mouse click?) > > > I am starting emacs from GUI mouse click. All the above tests are done > only with the .bashrc, i.e., after removing the lines from .profile and > .gnomerc > ----------------------------- *Sanjib Sikder *Ph.D. Fellow Chemical Engineering IIT Bombay* * On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote: > Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > "The easiest way to update is logout from the computer, login again and > start emacs." > > > > I did that. Still not working :( > > > > When you have problems like this, you need to take it in small > steps. > > o What shell are you using? Yagnesh's recommendation assumes > that you are running bash as your shell (presumably on some > Linux/Unix system). Is this assumption correct? > > o Assuming you are using bash, there are two relevant initialization > files: a login shell sources $HOME/.profile and any shell (be it a login > shell or one that is started as a descendant of your login shell) sources > $HOME/.bashrc. > > o Adding > > export FOO=bar > > to such an initialization file causes the variable FOO to be defined > (with value "bar") > and to be exported (i.e. it is available in the environment of *any* > subprocess of > this shell). > > o So log out and log back in[fn:2], start a shell and at the prompt say > > echo $FOO > > Does it say "bar"? If not, don't go any further: the problem has nothing > to do with > emacs (note that this is the first time I mention emacs). > > o If this part is OK, start emacs *from this shell*: it should inherit the > variable. > You can check by evaluating this form: > > (getenv "FOO") > > Then the variable will also be available to any subprocesses started by > emacs. > > o In particular, if you define BIBINPUTS as Yagnesh suggests, then the > bibtex invoked > by the latex exporter under emacs will find the bib file where you told > it. > > o What can go wrong? The usual problem is that you use some graphical > desktop environment and start emacs by clicking on some icon. Then > the emacs process does not have a bash shell as its parent, so it does > not inherit the exported variables. Try starting emacs from a bash > command line.[fn:2] > > Nick > > Footnotes: > [fn:1] If you define it in .bashrc, you shouldn't have to log out and log > back in: just start a new bash shell. > > [fn:2] I prefer defining variables in my .profile and I have arranged > for my .profile to be sourced by the appropriate initialization > file of my graphical desktop environment, so I get it whether I > log in at the console or through the graphical login. That > way *every* process, no matter how it is started, has the > variables available to it. I use .bashrc only for aliases (which > I use very rarely, so most of the time I don't have a .bashrc > file at all). > >
