Re: Setting the TEXINPUTS and BIBINPUTS varibles for latex inside vim/gVim

> Despite what you read on the web, ~/.bashrc is not the right place
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> to set environment variables. For one thing, they won't be
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> available to programs launched from Vim with ":!command". For
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> another, they won't be available to programs started from your
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> window manager, as gvim often is.
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>
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> Where you _should_ put environment variables is changing. In the
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> beginning, personal environment variables were set in ~/.profile.
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> Period. Then bash came along and offered ~/.bash_profile as an
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> alternative. Now I understand that Ubuntu recommends putting them
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> in ~/.environment. I believe that other desktop environments have
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> their own pet places. For the time being, however, I think that
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> ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile will still be sourced when you log in
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> and before your window manager is launched, which is when you want
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> them set so that they are available to programs such as gvim.
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Setting the variables in ~/.profile solved the problem for me, now everything works like a charm. Thank you very much for your detailed explanation, I really appreciate this.



Best regards,
Christoph

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