🚀 go-pugleaf

Here's my solution:

Dump NT, install any one of the following, together with LaTeX and emacs:
Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.  The list is in the order of level of
difficulty in installing, with the most difficult one further to the end.  

That's the solution that I chose a while back.


Regards,
Kenneth Tan
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On 31 Jul 1998, Emerick Rogul wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> I'm using MiKTeX 1.0 on NT and it works great.  I'm trying to use it
> with Emacs 19.34.4 (I'd prefer not to upgrade to 20.x, if at all
> possible), but I'm having a few problems:
> 
> 1) I use MKS sh as my default shell on NT, but this causes Emacs
>    to hang when I do a C-c C-f in LaTeX mode.  I have to eventually
>    kill and restart Emacs to "fix" the problem.
> 
> 2) So, because of (1), I switched to using cmd.exe as my shell in
>    tex-mode by setting tex-shell-file-name to "cmd.exe"  Now,
>    C-c C-f does the right thing the first time I use it, the next
>    time I try it, Emacs complains: "writing to process: invalid
>    argument, tex-shell".  Then, the third time it works, fourth
>    time it fails with the same message, etc.  Very annoying, and I'm
>    not too sure what's going on.
> 
> If anyone has any ideas about either of these problems, please let me
> know.  Thanks,
> 
> -Emerick
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> Emerick Rogul       /\/  "i've said many, many, many unkind things about
> emerick@cs.bu.edu   /\/   philadelphia, and i meant every one of them."
> ----------------------------------------------------------- david lynch
> 
>