Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.84; conversion of formula to picture fails

[David Kastrup]

Peter Dyballa <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 05.01.2008 um 14:39 schrieb David Kastrup:
>
>> My guess is that you start Emacs in some manner where gs is not
>> present
>> in the PATH variable.  When starting a shell, something like ~/.bashrc
>> is read in and presumably sets the path.  This does not happen,
>> however,
>> when Emacs starts gs directly without an intervening shell.
>
>
> No, definitely. Otherwise Emacs would need to report: command not
> found.

The report is something else.

> One serious try: In dired-mode on some file
>
>       ! which gs RET
>
> leads to output
>
>       /usr/local/bin/gs
>       circ.texl: Command not found.
>
> I do have my Mac OS X under control ... with all its utilities.

Excluding Emacs.  I seem to remember that OSX had problems talking with
programs and that people fixed the defaults appropriately in current
Emacs sources.  Try setting process-connection-type to nil if it is t or
vice versa.

> Is there no way to debug in more detail what preview is doing?

Huh?  Why would preview be different to debug than other things?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum