[tex-live] AUCTeX state

[Ralf Angeli]

* Reinhard Kotucha (2008-05-07) writes:

> I now upgraded to Emacs 22.2 now and removed obsolete stuff.

Does the upgrade include image libraries?

> Coming back to the question I asked David in Bachotek: Unless some
> MinGW programs are installed, Emacs is the only program on Windows
> which can display manpages and info files.
>
> Is there any possibility to make Emacs aware of TeX Live's MANPATH and
> INFOPATH?  It can be done somehow using kpsewhich. man/ and info/ are
> relative to $SELFAUTOPARENT.

Emacs checks for the environment variables MANPATH and INFOPATH and uses
them if set.  On Windows Emacs honors such variables if set in the
registry in Software/Gnu/Emacs, see (info "(emacs)MS-Windows Registry").
(I'm not sure if this is true for all such variables.)

One can also set the variables `woman-manpath' and
`Info-directory-list'.

I'm not sure if one really wants to go through the pain of configuring
the respective variables during installation of TeX Live.  Perhaps it
would be easier and more intuitive for a Windows user if opening a man
or info file from the Windows Explorer opened the respective viewer,
i.e. Emacs if there is no other.  But I haven't checked if this works or
could be made to work.

-- 
Ralf