[AUCTeX] Re: Trouble with Find Documentation

[Alan Ristow]

Ralf Angeli wrote:
> * Alan Ristow (2006-06-28) writes:
>
> > Ralf Angeli wrote:
> > > What appears if you copy the lines
> > >
> > > (when (executable-find "texdoc")
> > >                 (TeX-search-files nil '("dvi" "pdf" "ps" "txt" "html") t t))
> > >
> > > into the *scratch* buffer, place the cursor behind the last
> > > parenthesis and type `C-j'?
> > ("test" "campanile" "beamericonbook" "beamericonbook.20" 
> > "beamericonarticle" "beamericonarticle.20" "beamer-icsi-logo" 
> > "powerdot-default")
> >
> > It appears to be searching more than one directory, as I don't have a 
> > directory that contains exactly this set of files. However, my TeX tree 
> > obviously contains a lot more than eight files of the types listed in 
> > your command. None of them, with the possible exception of "test", 
> > appears to be related to anything I've opened since installing Emacs.
>
> I just had a quick look and the problem appears to be the alternate
> search which is being used if kpathsea-based search is not available.
> That's the case with MikTeX for example.  The alternate search,
> however, searches below the various TeX roots in the "tex"
> subdirectory whereas all the documentation is below the "doc"
> subdirectory.  I'll try to fix this ...

Thank you. I should have mentioned that I am, in fact, using MiKTeX. If 
I were more knowledgeable about Emacs and AUCTeX I would love to help 
you try to fix the problem (but then, of course, I probably wouldn't 
have had the problem to begin with...).

> > Thanks for the info. Perhaps I'll experiment more with XEmacs once I get 
> > everything working properly in Emacs, as I'd prefer to use XEmacs in the 
> > long run. For now, I'll just forget about it.
>
> In case AUCTeX is one of your main applications you should probably
> have a look at the section about bugs in the AUCTeX manual.  There are
> some specific to XEmacs because of its dated code base.

Thanks for the pointer!

Alan