[OS X Emacs] latex + dvips + ps2pdf from Aquamacs
Peter West
lists at pbw.id.au
Mon Nov 2 23:39:20 EST 2020
Apple-supplied bash in Mojave (which I am still on) is 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin18). The current MacPorts version of bash (which is first in my PATH) is 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0). But if you are having problems with startup shells, that is probably too much information.
When I finally get around to Catalina or Big Sur I will just continue to use MacPorts current bash. I have too much tied up in .profile and various collections of shell functions to sort out incompatibilities.
--
Peter West
pbw at pbw.id.au
“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
> On 3 Nov 2020, at 10:43 am, Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at math.fsu.edu> wrote:
>
> So it’s working?
>
> The discrepancy is, or might be, that there is a difference between a login and non login shell in their startup mechanisms. It depends on whether you have still disabled .zprofile, which, if I remember correctly, sources .zshrc. This is OK, by the way: my .zprofile doesn’t do anything, and in particular it does not source .zshrc.
>
> Two more comments: bash is very similar in its distinction between login vs. non-login shell and interactive vs. non-interactive. Second, you can go back to bash, if you were using it before, especially if it worked. You can run
>
> chsh -s /bin/bash
>
> It will ask your password. (Or you can use “dscl” for the same effect, but with a different syntax. )
>
> —Ettore
>
>> On Nov 2, 2020, at 16:42, Roussanka Loukanova <rl.stpuu at gmail.com <mailto:rl.stpuu at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> More puzzles, which, perhaps, point to some inconsistencies of Aquamacs PATH, with respect to zsh:
>>
>> By launching Aquamacs from terminal:
>> $ open -a aquamacs
>> in Aquamacs *Messages*:
>> 23 environment variables imported from login shell (/bin/zsh).
>>
>> In another Restart of the Mac and launching Aquamacs from Dock:
>> In Aquamacs *Messages*, I get alternative number of variables:
>>
>> 16 environment variables imported from login shell (/bin/zsh).
>> or
>> 19 environment variables imported from login shell (/bin/zsh).
>>
>> with the same:
>> M-x getenv
>> PATH
>> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/texbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/local/texlive/2020/bin
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Roussanka
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 10:25 PM Roussanka Loukanova <rl.stpuu at gmail.com <mailto:rl.stpuu at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Hi Ettore,
>>
>> did you logout and logged back in?
>>
>> Yes, 2-3 times, just in case to triple check all those files and PATH and SHELL variables. They are the same, except for the PATH from Aquamacs:
>> ----------------
>> by moving .zprofile to
>> t.zprofile
>> keeping:
>> .zshrc
>>
>> in Aquamacs *Messages*:
>> 16 environment variables imported from login shell (/bin/zsh).
>>
>> M-x getenv
>> PATH
>> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/texbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/local/texlive/2020/bin
>> -----------
>>
>> Alternatively, do you see any difference in the environment if you open a fresh Terminal and run "zsh -l" in it?
>>
>> Is this the pipe key? Here is what I get:, which seems strange:
>>
>> ~ $ zsh -|
>> pipe> quit
>> zsh: command not found: quit
>> update_terminal_cwd:printf:21: write error: broken pipe
>> update_terminal_cwd:21: write error: broken pipe
>> ~ $
>>
>> I even do not know how to terminate this process, and did it via quitting Terminal, which asked me to terminate it.
>>
>> I don’t see anything untoward in your .zprofile file.
>>
>> It looks to me that Aquamacs doesn't do its PATH properly in the presence of the local ~/.zprofile. But this is no proof, just based on my test of moving it away, by moving it to ~/t.zprofile.
>>
>> It should not make a difference, but can you double check for the presence of a ~/.zshenv?
>>
>> ~ $ more .zshenv
>> .zshenv: No such file or directory
>> ~ $
>>
>> I'm quite puzzled, even with the poor knowledge I have about the zsh and shells. I do not know the syntax of their source code: I just try to handle some minimal code to get the prompt in Terminal explicitly display the full path of the directory where I go. I am still worried about the aliases and the function defined in my ~/.zshrc inherited from my old bash.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Roussanka
>>
>> —Ettore
>>
>>> On Nov 2, 2020, at 14:30, Roussanka Loukanova <rl.stpuu at gmail.com <mailto:rl.stpuu at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Ettore and Win,
>>>
>>> I've done one more test, which seems to improve the PATH value for Aquamacs and allows access to ps2pdf, but I do not know whether this solves the problems, or is just a test with some improvement.
>>>
>>> ----------------
>>> by moving .zprofile to
>>> t.zprofile
>>> keeping:
>>> .zshrc
>>>
>>> 19 environment variables imported from login shell (/bin/zsh)
>>>
>>> M-x getenv
>>> PATH
>>> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/texbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/local/texlive/2020/bin
>>>
>>> ~ $ echo $PATH
>>> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin
>>> ~ $
>>> ~ $ echo $SHELL
>>> /bin/zsh
>>>
>>> latex+dvi+ps2pdf seem fine from Aquamacs
>>>
>>> ----------------
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Roussanka
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 7:17 PM Roussanka Loukanova <rl.stpuu at gmail.com <mailto:rl.stpuu at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> Hi Ettore,
>>>
>>> Sorry I've not been able to answer earlier.
>>>
>>> Indeed, my ~/.zprofile and ~/.zshrc are interfering and messing up the PATH environment variable, at least in Aquamacs, hopefully not more.
>>>
>>> I upgraded to Catalina macOS this Summer, and, as prompted by it, I moved from bash to zsh. I created / exported ~/.zprofile and ~/.zshrc from the corresponding ones of bash. I followed whatever the Mac's Catalina prompted me for, read Apple Support:
>>> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050 <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050>
>>> and some from the zsh website, to which I got from the "man zsh''. Obviously, I didn't get enough details.
>>>
>>> Here are some tests I've done and the dot files you think would be useful. I would like to get help, feedback, and know what and how. I hope that the upper settings are as they have been from Apple, because I have never attempted to modify them, at least not deliberately.
>>>
>>> ----------------
>>> ----
>>> .zprofile
>>> --
>>> # .zprofile is read by zsh when starting a zsh login shell.
>>>
>>> # Get the aliases and functions
>>> if [ -f ~/.zshrc ]; then
>>> . ~/.zshrc
>>> fi
>>> #
>>> --
>>> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050 <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050>
>>> .zshrc
>>> --
>>> # .zshrc is read by zsh when starting a non-login, interactive
>>> # shell. It is recommended to source it in .zsh_profile so it's
>>> # read by login zsh as well.
>>>
>>> # https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050 <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050>
>>> # need of export? I see no difference:
>>> # export PS1="%10F%m%f:%11F%1~%f \$ "
>>> # export PS1="%11F%0~%f \$ "
>>> # %n user ; %1 current dir ; %0 path
>>> # export PS1="%n %F{red}%0~%f \$ "
>>> # export PS1="%F{red}%0~%f \$ "
>>> PS1="%F{red}%0~%f \$ "
>>>
>>> # User specific aliases and functions
>>> alias cp="cp -i"
>>> alias rm="rm -i"
>>> alias mv="mv -i"
>>> trash () { mv "$@" ~/.Trash ; }
>>>
>>> -- with these dot files:
>>> in Aquamacs *Messages*:
>>> Warning: Login shell did not return environment.
>>> 0 environment variables imported from login shell (/bin/zsh).
>>> --
>>> from Aquamacs:
>>> M-x getenv
>>> PATH
>>> /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/texbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/local/texlive/2020/bin
>>>
>>> ----------------
>>> by moving the dot files to
>>> t.zprofile
>>> t.zshrc
>>>
>>> Mon Nov 2 16:57:11
>>>
>>> ~ % echo $SHELL
>>> /bin/zsh
>>>
>>> % echo $PATH
>>> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin
>>> the same as with
>>> .zprofile
>>> .zshrc
>>> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin
>>>
>>> from Aquamacs:
>>> M-x getenv
>>> PATH
>>> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/texbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/local/texlive/2020/bin
>>> ----
>>> ----------------
>>> ----------------
>>>
>>>
>>> Ouch. It would probably help Wim to check the content of the following files:
>>>
>>> /etc/paths
>>> ~ $ more /etc/paths
>>> /usr/local/bin
>>> /usr/bin
>>> /bin
>>> /usr/sbin
>>> /sbin
>>> ~ $
>>> /etc/zprofile
>>> ~ $ more /etc/zprofile
>>> # System-wide profile for interactive zsh(1) login shells.
>>>
>>> # Setup user specific overrides for this in ~/.zprofile. See zshbuiltins(1)
>>> # and zshoptions(1) for more details.
>>>
>>> if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
>>> eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
>>> fi
>>> ~ $
>>>
>>> /etc/zshrc
>>>
>>> ~ $ more /etc/zshrc
>>> # System-wide profile for interactive zsh(1) shells.
>>>
>>> # Setup user specific overrides for this in ~/.zshrc. See zshbuiltins(1)
>>> # and zshoptions(1) for more details.
>>>
>>> # Correctly display UTF-8 with combining characters.
>>> if [[ "$(locale LC_CTYPE)" == "UTF-8" ]]; then
>>> setopt COMBINING_CHARS
>>> fi
>>>
>>> # Disable the log builtin, so we don't conflict with /usr/bin/log
>>> disable log
>>>
>>> # Save command history
>>> HISTFILE=${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zsh_history
>>> HISTSIZE=2000
>>> SAVEHIST=1000
>>>
>>> # Beep on error
>>> setopt BEEP
>>>
>>> # Use keycodes (generated via zkbd) if present, otherwise fallback on
>>> # values from terminfo
>>> if [[ -r ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zkbd/${TERM}-${VENDOR} ]] ; then
>>> source ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zkbd/${TERM}-${VENDOR}
>>> else
>>> typeset -g -A key
>>>
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf1]" ]] && key[F1]=$terminfo[kf1]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf2]" ]] && key[F2]=$terminfo[kf2]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf3]" ]] && key[F3]=$terminfo[kf3]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf4]" ]] && key[F4]=$terminfo[kf4]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf5]" ]] && key[F5]=$terminfo[kf5]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf6]" ]] && key[F6]=$terminfo[kf6]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf7]" ]] && key[F7]=$terminfo[kf7]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf8]" ]] && key[F8]=$terminfo[kf8]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf9]" ]] && key[F9]=$terminfo[kf9]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf10]" ]] && key[F10]=$terminfo[kf10]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf11]" ]] && key[F11]=$terminfo[kf11]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf12]" ]] && key[F12]=$terminfo[kf12]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf13]" ]] && key[F13]=$terminfo[kf13]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf14]" ]] && key[F14]=$terminfo[kf14]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf15]" ]] && key[F15]=$terminfo[kf15]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf16]" ]] && key[F16]=$terminfo[kf16]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf17]" ]] && key[F17]=$terminfo[kf17]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf18]" ]] && key[F18]=$terminfo[kf18]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf19]" ]] && key[F19]=$terminfo[kf19]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kf20]" ]] && key[F20]=$terminfo[kf20]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kbs]" ]] && key[Backspace]=$terminfo[kbs]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kich1]" ]] && key[Insert]=$terminfo[kich1]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kdch1]" ]] && key[Delete]=$terminfo[kdch1]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[khome]" ]] && key[Home]=$terminfo[khome]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kend]" ]] && key[End]=$terminfo[kend]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kpp]" ]] && key[PageUp]=$terminfo[kpp]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[knp]" ]] && key[PageDown]=$terminfo[knp]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kcuu1]" ]] && key[Up]=$terminfo[kcuu1]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kcub1]" ]] && key[Left]=$terminfo[kcub1]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kcud1]" ]] && key[Down]=$terminfo[kcud1]
>>> [[ -n "$terminfo[kcuf1]" ]] && key[Right]=$terminfo[kcuf1]
>>> fi
>>>
>>> # Default key bindings
>>> [[ -n ${key[Delete]} ]] && bindkey "${key[Delete]}" delete-char
>>> [[ -n ${key[Home]} ]] && bindkey "${key[Home]}" beginning-of-line
>>> [[ -n ${key[End]} ]] && bindkey "${key[End]}" end-of-line
>>> [[ -n ${key[Up]} ]] && bindkey "${key[Up]}" up-line-or-search
>>> [[ -n ${key[Down]} ]] && bindkey "${key[Down]}" down-line-or-search
>>>
>>> # Default prompt
>>> PS1="%n@%m %1~ %# "
>>>
>>> # Useful support for interacting with Terminal.app or other terminal programs
>>> [ -r "/etc/zshrc_$TERM_PROGRAM" ] && . "/etc/zshrc_$TERM_PROGRAM"
>>> ~ $
>>>
>>> ~/.zshenv
>>> ~ $ more /.zshenv
>>> /.zshenv: No such file or directory
>>> ~ $
>>>
>>> ~/.zshrc
>>> ~ $ more .zshrc
>>> # .zshrc is read by zsh when starting a non-login, interactive
>>> # shell. It is recommended to source it in .zsh_profile so it's
>>> # read by login zsh as well.
>>>
>>> ## test colour:
>>> # print -P '%B%F{red}co%F{green}lo%F{blue}rs%f%b'
>>>
>>> # https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050 <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050>
>>> # need of export?
>>> # export PS1="%10F%m%f:%11F%1~%f \$ "
>>> # export PS1="%11F%0~%f \$ "
>>> # %n user ; %1 current dir ; %0 path
>>> # export PS1="%n %F{red}%0~%f \$ "
>>> # export PS1="%F{red}%0~%f \$ "
>>> PS1="%F{red}%0~%f \$ "
>>>
>>> # User specific aliases and functions
>>> alias cp="cp -i"
>>> alias rm="rm -i"
>>> alias mv="mv -i"
>>> trash () { mv "$@" ~/.Trash ; }
>>> ~ $
>>>
>>> ~/.zprofile
>>> ~ $ more .zprofile
>>> # .zprofile is read by zsh when starting a zsh login shell.
>>>
>>> # Get the aliases and functions
>>> if [ -f ~/.zshrc ]; then
>>> . ~/.zshrc
>>> fi
>>> #
>>> ~ $
>>>
>>> ~/.profile
>>> ~ $ more .profile
>>> .profile: No such file or directory
>>> ~ $
>>>
>>> just in case. We should exclude the possibility that zsh is to blame. More precisely, the difference between a login shell and the non-login one that is executed by the single Terminal instances.
>>>
>>> I've been learning these days with all this. Thanks for your help!
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Roussanka
>>> —Ettore
>>>
>>> Ettore Aldrovandi
>>> Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
>>> 1017 Academic Way * http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov <http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov>
>>> Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA * * aldrovandi at math dot fsu dot edu
>>>
>>
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