Greg Bognar via General discussion about AUCTeX <auctex@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi, > > When I run `TeX-documentation-texdoc' (from the menu or with C-c ?), nothing > happens. The mouse pointer does turn into busy, but it stops after a while. > Nothing is written to *Messages* or to .xsession-errors. > > The texdoc command works from the terminal, opening a PDF viewer with the > requested document. > > I'm not sure whether this is an AUCTeX, Emacs, or window manager issue. Any > ideas how I could find out what the problem is? Try M-x shell RET and run texdoc from _that_ command line. That should at least carry around some of the environment that TeX-documentation-texdoc is working with. If it fails, you'll probably get some info in the Emacs buffer used as terminal. -- David Kastrup
