[Mac-emacs-users] Emacs and TeX

[Martin S. <m....@co...>]

Hi. I'm new to emacs, so I hope you'll bear with me. I need a TeX-savvy editor
for OS 10.2, but the carbon-emacs binaries I've tried (v21.3.50: from Enrico
Franconi and from Alex Rice) are unable to launch TeX, BibTeX, etc
(although otherwise
they're great). For both binaries any TeX process terminates with the message
that it "exited abnormally with code 1". According to the info pages this could
be caused by a problem with the 'env' program not being properly installed. env
is however inside the emacs binary (attested to run on OS 10.2) so I guess
is not
the cause of my problem (?). I get the same result on two different
machines (the
only peculiarity they have in common is that each has XFree86 installed). I'm
using Gerben Wierda's teTex and can compile and typeset from the terminal
(outside emacs). Can I make this work without resorting to building my own
(which
I'm not yet set up to do)?  Ideally I'd like to run emacs with auctex, reftex,
etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Martin Steer
Department of Linguistics
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Australian National University
Canberra 0200
Australia