Re: pdflatex not found?

["Fatma Başak Aydemir" <aydemirfb@gmail.com>]

I do not know the reasons but I had the same problem in the past on OS X.

exec-path-from-shell package is a nice solution for that.

https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell

27/10/15 14:43 tarihinde Peter Davis yazdı:
> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Envoyé de mon iPhone
>>
>>> Le 27 oct. 2015 à 01:14, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>
>>> Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>>> ...
>>> Yes, probably, but if I can get people to submit backtraces when getting
>>> an error, we can cut down the email volume by a factor of 2.43 (making up
>>> fictitious data to bolster my case...) In all seriousness, at least it
>>> shows that you are not going down some strange path.
> I think the actual number is more like 2.17, but let's not quibble.
>
>>> What happens if you say M-x shell-command RET pdflatex RET?
> Not found.
>
>>> Somebody suggested running "which pdflatex" in your shell - what does
>>> that say?
> Still not found. However, adding it to ~/.tcshrc seems to fix the problem. That makes sense, but leaves two questions:
>
> 1) Why am I able to run pdflatex (without specifying the path) just from the shell running in a terminal window?
>
> 2) What's the point of defining the emacs exec-path, since I needed to define the shell's PATH variable anyway?
>
>>> And you say it should be in /usr/texbin - what happens if you invoke
>>> it with an absolute path: "/usr/texbin/pdflatex" in your shell?
>> Imiight have missed it - but which OS are you using?
> Sorry. It's OS X 10.10.5, using GNU Emacs 24.5.1
>
> Thanks!
> -pd
>

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