[BUG] TRAMP error in PDF export

[BUG] TRAMP error in PDF export

[Philip Hudson]

Not 100% sure this is a bug rather than misconfiguration, but it looks
like it at first sight:

Open an Org file via ssh:

  C-x C-f /ssh:me@host:/org/anOrgFile.org

Export it to PDF:

  C-c C-e l p

I get:

  (lots of pdfTex error text about not being able to find the file
/ssh:me@host:/org/anOrgFile.tex)

ending with:

  byte-code: Forbidden reentrant call of Tramp

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Re: [BUG] TRAMP error in PDF export

[Aaron Ecay]

Hi Phil,

Org isn’t currently set up to handle compiling Latex documents on a
remote machine.  I suppose the relevant function should detect such an
attempt, and immediately error out.  Over the longer term, remote
compilation support could be added.

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Aaron Ecay

Re: [BUG] TRAMP error in PDF export

[Philip Hudson]

On 7 October 2016 at 14:31, Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> wrote:

> Org isn’t currently set up to handle compiling Latex documents on a
> remote machine.  I suppose the relevant function should detect such an
> attempt, and immediately error out.  Over the longer term, remote
> compilation support could be added.

Thanks for confirming that, Aaron.

I agree that erroring out is the best short-term fix.

Longer term, is remote compilation necessarily the right thing to do?
We could instead (or also?) support local compilation. I see minuses
both ways. Maybe the right thing would be to offer a config option.
WDYT?

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