[OS X TeX] Configuring Emacs 21.3.50 for AUC-TeX on OS X 10.3

[Massimiliano Gubinelli]

Add something like the following to your ~/.emacs file:

;; Patch to provide missing environment variables to Emacs
(setenv "PATH" (concat (getenv "PATH") 
":/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/bin"))

Applications does not share shell environment (which probably has been 
set in the shell config file) unless they are started from a shell 
command.

Massimiliano



On 25 Nov 2004, at 17:41, J.McKenzie Alexander wrote:

> I recently downloaded a build of Emacs so that I could start using 
> AUC-TeX again and am encountering what is, I'm sure, a simple problem 
> that I just can't figure out.
>
> I added Emacs to the dock by dragging the app icon from /Applications. 
>  When I double-click on the icon, emacs launches normally.  When I 
> open up a TeX file in LaTeX mode, I try to typeset it by typing 
> Ctrl-C, Ctrl-C, the AUC-TeX macro for starting a shell process that 
> runs latex on the main file.
>
> The problem?  For some reason the bash process which Emacs fires up 
> has a different path configuration than the bash process which starts 
> when I launch Terminal, and does not have the latex executable on its 
> path.  From Terminal, though, I can start latex by simply typing 
> "latex" at the command-line.
>
> The weird thing is that if I launch Emacs by typing
>
> 	/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
>
> instead of clicking on the Emacs icon, AUC-TeX works fine.  In this 
> case, the shell process *does* have the latex executable on its path.
>
> Any suggestions on what might need to be changed would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason
>
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