Re: [AUCTeX] 11.90.2.2017-07-25; TeX-search-files-by-type: No TeX trees available; configure ‘TeX-tree-roots’ error

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi Sivaram,

2017-11-27 15:41 GMT+01:00 Sivaram Neelakantan <address@hidden>:
>
> I get the subj line error, if I do C-c C-e to start a blank document.
> if I manually type the stuff below it works and compiles.
>
> A quick google search reveals a patch was done by Ralf for the same
> issue posted by me though I don't know what.  And (executable-find
> "kpsewhich") is "c:/cygwin/bin/kpsewhich.exe"
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex/2011-05/msg00002.html
>
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> \begin{document}
> test
>
> \end{document}
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I was expecting these settings parameters to show up as document
> options.
>
> (setq LaTeX-default-style "scrartcl")
> (setq LaTeX-default-options "a4paper,12pt,draft")

Thanks for the report.  I guess the value of `TeX-tree-roots' for you
is nil, right?  You can check it with

    C-h v TeX-tree-roots RET

What happens if you run

    M-: (TeX-tree-roots) RET

?

Bye,
Mosè