Re: [AUCTeX] BIBINPUTS

[Ralf Angeli]

* Greg BOGNAR (2006-01-30) writes:

> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Ralf Angeli wrote:
>
>> * Greg BOGNAR (2006-01-28) writes:
>> 
>> > On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Ralf Angeli wrote:
>> >
>> >> So how do you set it?
>> >
>> > In my .bashrc:
>> >
>> > BIBINPUTS=.:$HOME/Documents/bibliographies//:
>> >
>> > As I mentioned before, a latex job run from the terminal finds the 
>> > databases, only Emacs doesn't.
>> 
>> Does it work if you export the variable?
>  
> No, it doesn't.  As far as I understand from the bash manpage, 
> variables defined in .bashrc do not have to be exported, in any case.

I understand it differently and in fact, if I start a tty, Emacs does
not pick up the variable unless it is exported.

Regarding the X session: You are probably starting your X session via
a display manager.  That means you have to set the variable in a file
which is evaluated by the display manager.  In my case .xsession does
the trick.  As you already found out .fvwm/config did it for you at
least with this particular window manager.

> Wouldn't the simple solution be to introduce a variable for the 
> bibliography databases within AUCTeX?  I think there are such 
> variables in RefTeX and Bib-cite.

It's better to use an environment variable.  Then you don't have to
set the respective value separately in every application needing it.

-- 
Ralf