Emacs shell command not found

Question

I work on Mac OS X 10.5.8. I am trying to learn emacs. I am very new to it and today tried to enter shell commands from within emacs. I entered pdflatex filename. H

Answer 1

According to the following article. If you launch emacs from a shell, it will inherit the shell's environment variables. Therefore, just launch emacs from whatever shell you are most comfortable with to automatically set the environment variables. For example:

cd /file_path
emacs file_name