Re: AUCTex in WSL cannot find TeX Live in Win

[Ikumi Keita]

>>>>> petepetite75@my.mail.de writes:
>  Right! Referring to the wsl-doc which first seemed confusing, I was
>  able to identify one major culprit: myself. Wsl, of course, has to be
>  running in the background for "\\wsl$" to show the desired result.
>  (I could have realized myself, as when clicking on the popped-up
>  "network" folder windows complains there is no active network) So
>  when asked correctly, the folder Debian (shown in Explorer as
>  Netzwerk > wsl$ > Debian) pops up correctly, too. That was mistake
>  No.1

OK.

> Mistake No.2: I indeed forgot not include the period. When I do,
> folder citizen13 does pop up in windows. Full path displayed in
> explorer: Netzwerk > wsl$ > Debian > home > citizen13

Hmm, then it's quite puzzling why cmd.exe refused the path "\\wsl$..."
previously...

Does this command, taken from [1], list contents of your Windows files
C:\ directory?
cmd.exe /C dir
(Run the above command in the wsl bash connsole.)

[1] 
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/filesystems#run-windows-tools-from-linux

> Certainly, you were bound to come that conclusion, because in spite of
> giving such precise instructions that even beginners should be able to
> follow, the problem was sitting in front of my machine. Sorry for the
> confusion! One intuition (though it is mainly just that) I may be not
> wrong about, remains: Wsl is quite alright, but there is something
> that emacs/ aucteX, vulgo, don't get. Back to square 1, I guess...

I'm almost running out of ideas. Maybe you should try another instance
of wsl installation, say Ubuntu, to see whether AUCTeX runs as expected
or not. If it fails as well, then emacs running under wsl has something
wrong about starting asynchronous process of windows binary. On the
contrary, if it runs normally, then your current installation of Debian
wsl is somehow corrupted.

Regards,
Ikumi Keita
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