Re: [AUCTeX] Re: Newbie Question: TeX-macro-global

[David Kastrup]

Bernt Guldbrandtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> Are the MikTeX binaries in your PATH variable?  Namely, can you open a
>> command line window, change to an arbitrary directory, and call
>> latex
>> on the command line without getting "Command not found" or similar?
>
> I see the exact same thing. After updating to MikTeX 2.5 running anything from
> XEmacs under AUCTeX fails with the following error message:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Running `LaTeX' on `test' with ``latex  "\nonstopmode\input{test.tex}"''
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.5)
> entering extended mode
> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8g> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, 
> ge
> rman, ngerman, french, loaded.
>
> (test.texlatex: Windows API error 123: The filename, directory name, or volume
> label syntax is incorrect.
>
>
> LaTeX exited abnormally with code 1 at Thu Sep 21 09:18:50
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> In other words XEmacs finds the right executables etc. as I would
> have expected.

What does
M-! echo $TEXINPUTS
output?

> Could there be some issue with path processing in XEmacs? XEmacs,
> Windows XP, AUCTeX and MikTeX are all fully updated.

Does it help to customize
M-x customize-variable RET TeX-kpathsea-path-delimiter RET
?

Does it help to customize
M-x customize-variable RET preview-TeX-style-dir RET
?

> ---------
> Windows XP2 fully updated
> XEmacs 21.4.19; January 2006
> MiKTeX 2.5 fully updated
> AUCTeX 11.83

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum