Re: LaTeX package completion not working properly

[Brian Elmegaard]

Hi Tassilo

Thank you for the reply.

This is the output of
C-x C-e (TeX-macro-global) RET

("c:/Users/brel/AppData/Local/Programs/MiKTeX 2.9/tex/" 
"c:/Users/brel/AppData/Local/Programs/MiKTeX 2.9/bibtex/bst/")

so this looks correct, I guess.

I also have kpsewhich in %PATH%.

On the other hand I do not have the environment variable SYSTEXMF set. 
MikTeX does not use this.
Is that a problem?

Best regards,
Brian







On 18-04-2020 10:21, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Brian Elmegaard <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> > It also works for LaTeX commands and environments as soon as I have
> > entered the package name manually.
> > But for \usepackage it does not work.
> >
> > The only difference I can find is that somehow I have the environment variable
> > TEXINPUTS set to the path:
> > .;c:/Users/me/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-12.2.0/latex
> > This is used in LaTeX-search-files-type-alist
> That should not be needed for packages provided by your LaTeX
> distribution.  Those should be found automatically using kpathsea.  What
> does
>
>    C-x C-e (TeX-macro-global) RET
>
> return?  For me, on a GNU/Linux box with TeXLive, it returns
>
>    ("/usr/share/texmf/tex/" "/usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/"
>     "/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/" "/usr/share/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/")
>
> which are the directories where TeXLive put its packages.
>
> I guess in your case it returns the default value
>
>    ("/usr/share/texmf/tex/" "/usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/")
>
> which is not applicable to your installation nor OS.  If that's the
> case, it indicates that AUCTeX couldn't call kpsewhich in order to query
> your TeX distro's paths.  So make sure that it is on your PATH.
>
> As an example,
>
>    $ kpsewhich -expand-path '$SYSTEXMF'
>
> should return something like
>
>    /var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-dist
>
> of course with paths matching your system and TeX installation
>
> HTH,
> Tassilo