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Happy New Year to *,

On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, David Allouche wrote:
> Currently, TeXmacs will look for stylesheets in the directories specified
> by
> the TEXMACS_STYLE_PATH environment variable, which defaults to
> ".:$HOME/.TeXmacs/styles:$TEXMACS_PATH/styles". But here, "." refers to the
> directory where TeXmacs was started.
>
> In most modern desktop setups, "." will always be $HOME since TeXmacs will
> be
> started from a laucher bar or an application menu. So TeXmacs will NOT find
> the custom stylesheet.
Are modern desktop setups really THAT bad? I always thought that starting
applications from some predefined directory is the most annoying "feature"
of Windows.

> -- Change the working directory to the directory where the current
> document
> is located. For consistency, this should be done every time a TeXmacs
> window
> gets the focus and every time the buffer associated with the currently
> focused window is changed. Unamed documents could be associated with the
> directory where TeXmacs was started. This behavior is inspired by Emacs.
I am definitely against this approach. I don't want an application to cd
behind my back. I know from which directory I started it, and I prefer it
to be the working directory until I explicitely do something.

> -- Define an new environment variable that holds name of the directory
> where the current document is located, one could name it
> TEXMACS_DOCUMENT_PATH. The value of this variable should be updated in the
> same way as the working directory in the previous solution. This would
> allow
> the best control from the TEXMACS_*_PATH environment variables.
This may be reasonable. But it seems to me that it's easier just to start
texmacs from the right directory.

Andrey Grozin

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• Finding style file in same directory as document, David Allouche, 12/26/2001
  • Re: Finding style file in same directory as document, Andrey G. Grozin, 12/26/2001
    • Re: Finding style file in same directory as document, David Allouche, 12/26/2001
      • Re: Finding style file in same directory as document, Andrey G. Grozin, 12/27/2001
        • Re: Finding style file in same directory as document, David Allouche, 12/27/2001
          • Re: Finding style file in same directory as document, Andrey G. Grozin, 12/27/2001
            • unsubscribe, Teddy Fen-Chong, 12/27/2001
          • Re: Finding style file in same directory as document, Álvaro Tejero Cantero, 12/27/2001
            • Re: Finding style file in same directory as document, David Allouche, 12/28/2001
            • Re: Finding style file in same directory as document, Joris van der Hoeven, 12/30/2001

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