Re: Emacs 20.7.1: tex-dvi-view-command

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Ricardo Oliveira de Mello wrote:

> I installed Emacs 20.7.1 in aWindows 98 plataform and I was trying to
> customize the tex-mode to view dvi files with yap. I put (setq
> tex-dvi-view-command "yap") in the .emacs file, but when I give the
> command tex-view it outputs the line
> yap file.dvi&
> appending this extra "&" character that causes yap not to recognize the
> file.

I don't think Windows shells recognize the & character, unless you have 
the Cygwin port of Bash installed, and arrange Emacs to use that as the 
shell.