On Nov 22, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
This will unfortunately be affecting many users, in fact every LaTeX user wanting to use the completion commands, that's why I wanted to write a longer description ;). Glad to hear it's working!
Chances are that now your path in the shell looks a bit longer than it used to ;)
As per my suggestion of creating/editing ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist, please do not do so if your path looks significantly different than mine. To minimize the dangers of this change, ideally the path you set in environment.plist should consist of "/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/ sbin:" followed by the path to the tex executables. Don't leave any things like /sw/bin or /opt/local/bin in there. Hopefully in the future you would not need to create/edit this file by setting its PATH at all.
The problem is that this file is read by ALL GUI apps, including things like installers, which might not expect that PATH to be set there, and some technical issues might result from that. As long as the path you put there is a typical path, with the four directories described above plus the one for TeX, you should be OK. In any case the other parts of your path will still be there when you run things from the command line.
Also, make sure there are no tabs at the beginning of the path, and no returns at the end. The line should really just have <string> followed immediately by the /bin... stuff, and then that stuff should be followed immediately by </string>.
Haris
Haris