[OS X Emacs] SyncTex
Alex Hamann
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Thu Jan 15 19:40:57 EST 2009
On 15.01.2009, at 04:55, David Reitter wrote:
> On 14 Jan 2009, at 23:23, Jan Rosinski wrote:
>
>> Indeed, I had an old MacPorts-teTeX distribution that I forgot about.
>> Interestingly, Aquamacs picked up this one instead of the newlest
>> MacTeX 2008
>> that was also on the hard disk.
>> After removing MacPorts-teTeX everything works nice.
>
> Aquamacs normally picks up whatever "which latex" in a login shell
> would give you. And that depends on the PATH setting.
... and that is the main problem with MacPorts: it puts its own
directory /usr/opt at the very beginning of your PATH. Therefore, it
will override all other installations and even the stuff provided by
Mac OS X itself. A quite nasty behaviour ;)
A.
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