Re: [AUCTeX-devel] [AUCTeX-diffs] GNU AUCTeX branch, master, updated. 9fdfe2c3d466d0a37b2d46b94052516e16d2c0c5

[David Kastrup]

"Ikumi Keita" <address@hidden> writes:

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> Author: Ikumi Keita <address@hidden>
> Date:   Thu Nov 30 00:32:49 2017 +0900
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>     Re-implement auto-detect of path separator from kpsewhich output
>     
>     * tex.el (TeX-kpathsea-path-delimiter): Accept t for Autodetect again
>     and make it default on w32 platform.
>     (TeX-tree-expand): Use heuristics as much as possible to determine the
>     path separator, paying attention to the case that it cannot be
>     determined.
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> +                ;; It seems that kpsewhich accepts semicolon as
> +                ;; path delimiter even on non-w32 platform and
> +                ;; converts it to colon if necessary.
> +                ;; Quote from texmf.cnf of TeXLive 2017:
> +                ;; "In this file, either ; or : can be used to
> +                ;; separate path components."
> +                ,(mapconcat #'identity vars ";")))

You know, it is not prohibited to actually test out such things.

address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ kpsewhich --progname=latex 
--expand-path "/home/dak/tex/india/:/tmp"
/home/dak/tex/india:/tmp
address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ kpsewhich --progname=latex 
--expand-path "/home/dak/tex/india/;/tmp"

address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ kpsewhich --version
kpathsea version 6.2.3
Copyright 2017 Karl Berry & Olaf Weber.
License LGPLv2.1+: GNU Lesser GPL version 2.1 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.


What are you trying to fix here?  The code you replaced was not an
accident.

-- 
David Kastrup