Re: emacs does not work with tex

[Jim Hunter <jhunter@paradigmshift.homelinux.net>]

"Takuon Soho" <Tak@somwhere.net> writes:

> Search for someone named "Popineau".
> 
> I believe they have a project going which is an emacs which has been
> specially built to run Tex and I think there is a windows port too.
> 
> The project name is something like "TexEmacs".
> 
> Tak
> 
> 
> "Norbert Rump" <norbert.rump@gmx.de> wrote in message 
> news:cu9u8b$a9a@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE...
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've got a problem I cannot solve: when trying to use tex-mode within
> > my emacs, I get the message: "Cannot open load file: tex". Maybe there
> > is something wrong with some kind of load path, but I can't figure it
> > out.
> >
> > I'm using emacs 21.3.1 on Windows 2000 (please don't blame me for
> > that). I'm also using emacs 21.3.1 on Sun Solaris - everything works
> > fine over there.
> >
> > Any help will be appreciated.
> >
> > Norbert 

Try http://www.fptex.org/
There is a TeX distribution for Windows which worked for me straight out
of the box on both Windows 2000 and XP.  It also works with Emacs provided
the TeX program is in your PATH (the installer didn't set the path 
automatically, IIRC).

Jim