Re: problem with auctex

[B. T. Raven]

"halo" <xuejun.cai@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> All,
>
> I just installed auctex in Windows. And because I uses a portable
> MikTex (installed in a USB disk), the PATH doesn't include the
> directory that contains the LaTeX executable commands. Is there a way
> in Emacs or auctex that can tell auctex where to find the latex
> commands? For example, can I setup the PATH variables directly in
> Emacs?
>
> Thanks you!
>
> caixj
>

You could try:
M-! path=%path%;[absolute path on flash disk]

but this is a sub-shell and might not persist through the emacs session.

If you can be sure that the usb drive will always be assigned the same
drive letter then you could add the absolute path to the exec-path list.
See "Customize."

Ed