Re: [AUCTeX] Re: auctex calling acrobat reader

[Ralf Angeli]

* Sivaram Neelakantan (2008-04-13) writes:

> $ echo $PATH (from the cygwin prompt)
[...]
> the reader is not there in the path.  But If I do
> Start-->Run-->acrord32 from the Windows Start Menu, it launches the
> reader even no path info is present.

If you use a Cygwin shell in Emacs it is mostly irrelevant that you can
call a program directly from Windows.  You have to make sure that Cygwin
can find the executable.

>> If Adobe Reader is your standard reader you can also use `start' like in
>> the entry for HTML output.
>
> Yes, that didn't work as the reader was not launched.

Could be that `start' is useless in Cygwin.  I don't know because I
don't have Cygwin installed.

-- 
Ralf