tex-mode on woe32

tex-mode on woe32

[Sam Steingold]

I am using a natively built emacs with cygwin tex.
this causes quite a few problems:

1. tex-kill-job somehow causes the first character of the command to be
   deleted:
$ pdflatex "\nonstopmode\input" "tr1622-srs-trigger-gen.tex"

$ bash: dflatex: command not found
   [note that the message is inserted _after_ the next prompt]
   (tex-shell-file-name is "bash")
   this problem disappears if I make tex-kill-job a noop.

2. tex-executable-exists-p calls executable-find to figure out if a
   program is available.  this is utterly broken because it tries to
   infer something without any knowledge about cygwin-specific handling
   of symbolic links, "exe" suffix &c.
   I had to explicitly set tex-executable-cache to ensure that pdflatex
   and latex were called at all.

3. this one is not specific to cygwin:
   I do not have a dvi previewer so I want everything to be in pdf.
   how do I start a pdf previewer?
   C-c C-v passes the dvi file to tex-dvi-view-command.

thanks.

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Re: tex-mode on woe32

[Aaron S. Hawley]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Sam Steingold wrote:

> [...]
>
> 3. this one is not specific to cygwin:
>    I do not have a dvi previewer so I want everything to be in pdf.
>    how do I start a pdf previewer?
>    C-c C-v passes the dvi file to tex-dvi-view-command.

Not sure if the information here helps:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/PdfTeX

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