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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: dpleydel@univ-fcomte.fr
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing default dvi viewer.
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:20:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5lfzg02.fsf@thievol.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080208133925.GA10741@univ-fcomte.fr> (David's message of "Fri,  8 Feb 2008 14:39:26 +0100")

David <dpleydel@univ-fcomte.fr> writes:

>> Again, think of using a customised texdoc as viewer not only for TeX  
>> documents, but also TXT, PS, PDF, DVI ??? *one* tool name instead of  
>> four. And once your taste changes, you won't need to customise AUCTeX  
>> again!
>
> OK, so finally I get it!! I have added these lines to my .bashrc
>
> ## Set defaults for texdoc
> export TEXDOCVIEW_html="mozilla %s"
> export TEXDOCVIEW_pdf="xpdf %s"
> export TEXDOCVIEW_ps="gv %s"
> export TEXDOCVIEW_dvi="kdvi %s"
> export TEXDOCVIEW_txt="emacs %s"
>
> ## Create alias for texdoc. I wanted "view" as my alias name, but that
> ## alrady existed. So I thought about "vyew" instead. This made me
> ## think "vitual sheep". So the alias name is now "vs".
> alias vs='texdoc -v'
>
>
>
> Now at the shell prompt I can just type
>
> funkyPrompt$ vs someFileName.dvi &
>
> or 
>
> funkyPrompt$ vs someFileName.ps &
>
> or 
>
> funkyPrompt$ vs someFileName.pdf &
>
> and the right program is chosen for the job. Pretty cool. There are a
> few points I still need to straighten out.
>
> 1) C-c C-c doesn't refer to texdoc. I'll have to find how to redirect
> it. No no no, I got it!!! I just need to edit the entries in "tex
> output view style" from the customise autex library (and hit the
> "state" button). Horrah! Ah now the funny thing is I changed one of
> the lines in the raised button customisation buffer to "%(o?)texdoc
> %dS %d ## %(o?)xdvi %dS %d" but the environmental variable
> TEXDOCVIEW_dvi as specified in .bashrc is not being used and a default
> xdvi has been used instead. Doooh! Of course .bashrc has no effect on
> emacs behaviour, I should think about .emacs instead right. Now with
> (setenv "TEXDOCVIEW_dvi" "kdvi %s") added to .emacs C-c C-c is calling
> texdoc which redirects it to kdvi!  Wola wola wola!
>
>
> 2) M-x *eshell* doesn't appear to read my .bashrc so the aliases and
> environmental variables don't work in that shell. Well of course this
> is the emacs shell and not a bash shell, but I cannot find online how
> to set aliases for the eshell.
>
>
> 3) With M-x shell, say I forget the & I cannot use C-z followed by bg
> to background the process as I could in M-x term. For a reader this
> isn't a big issue, but for other applications it might be. So ...
>
>
> 3a) How do I get something like a terminal's C-z within *shell*?
>
> 3b) Is it possible to edit the alias I have in .bashrc such that the &
> is added automatically - I tried a few things but nothing I came up
> with worked.

Did you try, instead of creting an alias, writing a function in .bashrc:
Some thing like that (not tested, not sure it work)

function vs
{
texdoc -v $PWD/$1
}

> cheers
> Dave
>
>
>
>

-- 
A + Thierry
Pub key: http://pgp.mit.edu




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-08 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080205170541.675151BC01F@ufc.univ-fcomte.fr>
2008-02-07 11:28 ` Changing default dvi viewer David
2008-02-07 10:51   ` Peter Dyballa
2008-02-07 15:30     ` David
2008-02-07 15:00       ` Peter Dyballa
2008-02-07 16:26         ` David
2008-02-07 18:32           ` Peter Dyballa
2008-02-08 13:39             ` David
2008-02-08 13:50               ` Peter Dyballa
2008-02-08 14:09                 ` David
2008-02-08 14:52                   ` Peter Dyballa
2008-02-08 14:11               ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-02-08 14:15                 ` David
2008-02-08 14:50                 ` David
2008-02-08 15:37                   ` Peter Dyballa
2008-02-08 17:07                     ` David
2008-02-08 14:20               ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2008-02-08 14:21                 ` David
2008-02-08 15:07                   ` Thierry Volpiatto
     [not found]           ` <mailman.7120.1202409178.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-08 20:18             ` Ralf Angeli
2008-02-09  9:38               ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]               ` <mailman.7202.1202549941.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-09 10:03                 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-02-07 10:56   ` Tassilo Horn

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