[tex-k] Speed of kpsewhich when querying the repertories of the TeX installation

jfbu jfbu at free.fr
Fri May 1 10:07:15 CEST 2015


Le 1 mai 2015 à 09:38, jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> a écrit :

>> 
>> 
>> IF you are so conservative about it, why not add to your .profile:
>> 	TEXMFLOCAL=$(kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL)
>> 	TEXMFHOME=$(kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME)
>> 	export TEXFMLOCAL TEXMFHOME
>> and all will be hell of a speed fast....
>> 
>> Isn't that the simplest solution for all your problems?
> 
> It is a good solution.

It is not such a good solution: for example currently I am
constantly switching back and forth between TL2014 and TL2015
with a single click, I don't need to source my .bash_profile,
nor do I need to relaunch Emacs, etc...

Jean-François


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