[tex-live] texdoc manual section for depricated environment vars

Axel E. Retif axel.retif at mac.com
Wed Sep 17 03:32:48 CEST 2008


On  16 Sep, 2008, at 20:22, Edd Barrett wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I have seen errors like this:
>
> texdoc warning: Environment variable TEXDOCVIEW_pdf deprecated. See  
> the manual
>        section ?.?, ?.? for details.
>
> The question marks are hard coded. May I suggest a better error?
>
> Perhaps "See `texdoc texdoc`", but then that may not work if no viewer
> is on the system.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

In my case, it was enough to comment out those lines (TEXDOCVIEW_xxx)  
from my .bash_profile. Now PDFs, etc., open with the system defaults  
apps.

Best,

Axel




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