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---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> David Kastrup <[email protected]> writes: >> I will elaborate the method to determine the path separator in AUCTeX. >> Please wait for a while. > What was the commit removing all that functionality intended to fix? The previous auto-detect code was not entirely reliable. There are some cases that set `TeX-kpathsea-path-delimiter' to ":" where the right value is ";". See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex-devel/2017-09/msg00004.html My intention is to sort out that problem, but my thought was short to mess up things when cygwin is involved. That's my fault. I am sorry about it. > Why would there have been autodetection code in the first place if it > would be sufficient to look at the system type? It seemed at that time that it can be simplified in that way after all. Shame on me. >> Now I realized that AUCTeX has to be extremely careful when choosing >> the path separator if it works on w32 platform. It involves two >> factors: Is Emacs w32 native application or cygwin application? Is >> kpsewhich w32 native application or cygwin application? > The Emacs application type has nothing to do with the kpathsea > separator. Yes, of course. The Emacs application type only comes into play when it is intended to take the default value of `TeX-kpathsea-path-delimiter' from `path-separator'. Regards, Ikumi Keita _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
