Olivier Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> It isn't. 
>
> It is. If I set "Latex Command" to "c:/cygwin/bin/latexe.exe",

And why don't you set LaTeX-command-style as told?  Of course, when
you choose to do the wrong things, wrong things will happen.  But this
particular problem is not inherent of AUCTeX.

>>> Please don't tell me that they just have to be on the PATH...
>>
>>
>> Why not?  That's the way to do this.
>
> That may be the standard way but I don't like polluting the global
> PATH with directories used by just one application: that's just
> messy.

Uh, TeX/LaTeX is not "just one application".

> Same goes for env. vars: they should be defined where and as
> needed.

TeX and LaTeX are command line applications.  As such, they may be
needed wherever a command line comes into play.  PATH is the point
where directories for that purpose are listed.

> I tried starting emacs from an emacs.bat script where I augment the
> PATH variable to add the desired directoty but it *still* cannot
> find it.

It should have worked unless you did something wrong.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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