[TxMt] Re: LaTeX bundle stopped working correctly

[Andrew Jaffe]

Hi René,

On 14/10/2016 12:37, René Schwaiger wrote:
> 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.

OK, Thanks -- this does seem to work. However, I note that I've got a 
LOT of bundles (and a `Support` folder) in Pristine\ Copy/. I assume 
that those are all now shadowing more recent bundles, without any way to 
actually tell. I think this dir was once used to differentiate the 
original version of bundles from ones with edits (might it have 
something to do with the old "getbundles" package?). Should I just trash 
that folder? Or would it be safer for me to revert to a clean install?

And, why did this just start happening?

Andrew