Re: [AUCTeX-devel] problems with Xemacs 21.4.22 Mule on Mac, xdvi

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi Uwe,

2015-06-10 8:41 GMT+02:00 Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>:
> Hello
>
> Although I use Linux most of the time (with Xemacs 21.5.34 and auctex
> 11.83 without problems), I found the following problem
> when I used Xemacs 21.4.22 Mule on Mac OS Yosmite. Xemacs 21.4.22 is
> shipped by port (Xcode installed) so upgrading to 21.5.34 means
> compiling which turned out a bit difficult. Here are the problems
> concerning 21.4.22:
>
>     -  xdvi does not dwell in /usr/bin/xdvi as expected but in
>       /usr/texbin/xdvi, where auctex does not find it.

Well, AUCTeX (actually *Emacs) expects a program to be in a PATH
directory, not necessarily /usr/bin.  If /usr/texbin is not in the
PATH, AUCTeX cannot find xdvi, did you expect something else?

>     - I could set either a symbolic link of xdvi or customize the
>       Tex command list.
>
>     - When I do the later I don't know how to make forward and
>       backward search to work.

Can you use forward/inverse search on GNU/Linux instead?

Bye,
Mosè