[TxMt] Re: LaTeX bundle stopped working correctly

[René Schwaiger]

Hi Andrew,

> On 14 Oct 2016, at 12:47 , Andrew Jaffe <a.h.jaffe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> [Apologies if this gets posted twice, as I sent it to both the gmane newsgroup and the list itself...]
> 
> I've got TM running on two machines, both updated to the most recent build.
> 
> On one machine, everything seems to be working fine.
> 
> On the other, the LaTeX bundle has stopped working correctly when I try to "Typeset and View":
> - I need to explicitly add /Library/tex/texbin to TM's path  in Prefs>Vars. If I don't, it fails looking for kpsewhich. (This is not necessary on the other machine -- PATH is not explicitly set at all in the TM variables window.)
> - I can't "view" with anything but the TM PDF viewer (although I can select other options from the prefs window, but it doesn't affect the behaviour).
> 
> On both machines the bundles are set to auto-update, and appear to be on the latest version from over the summer. *However*, if I actually look in the bundle editor, I do see differences. For example, on the non-working machine, there is an explicit check for kpsewhich, but not on the other one. And, indeed, if I look at the files in ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Pristine\ Copy/Bundles/LaTeX.tmbundle, I do find that they are from 2010!
> 
> I also note that the directory structure of  ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/is very different on the two machines.
> 
> So, does this have something to do with the recent move from old Avian folders? Or is it just an unrelated local problem? In any case, please help!

thank you for the detailed description of your problem. TextMate stores all managed bundles – those installed via `Preferences→Bundles` – inside 

	~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles/

. I think you can solve your issue using the following steps:

1. Move all version of `LaTeX.tmbundle` outside of `Managed/Bundles` into the Trash. To locate these bundles you can use the following command inside Terminal:

   mdfind -name '"latex.tmbundle"c' | grep -iE '\.tmbundle$'

2. Restart TextMate (`Ctrl` + `⌘` + `Q`)

Hope this helps. If not, then please just ask again.

> Andrew

Kind regards,
  René