Re: reproducing the crash

[Robert McDonald <r-mcdonald@northwestern.edu>]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 13.09.2006 um 20:41 schrieb Robert McDonald:
> 
>> The advantage of using the menu command
> 
> Does yap return control back to GNU Emacs? I am not using any Losedows, 
> I just know that in UNIX an application can be launched from GNU Emacs, 
> that never returns control back to it until it is killed, the process 
> removed from memory. All this time GNU Emacs would be blocked. How is 
> this going on with yap? Is yap sending signals to its parent process?
> 
> As far as I understand you are using AUCTeX for some things, and you 
> have your own "interface" to part of TeX. Can't you integrate your 
> "interface" into AUCTeX (via the *Customize* buffer)? Just to see 
> whether AUCTeX can handle yap. If this works without crashes, then this 
> is an indication that your "interface" has some bug or unwanted 
> side-effect.

I must be making this sound more complicated than it is. I understand 
what you're saying about control, but Yap never takes control away from 
Emacs. There is a single instance of Yap. I can at any time use either 
Yap or emacs. I can double-click in yap and be taken to the 
corresponding spot in the LaTeX source and I can use emacs to 
communicate with Yap and be taken to the corresponding spot in the dvi 
file. This communication occurs via Gnuserv. I am using AucTeX 
exclusively for my emacs interface to all of this. I needed to customize 
the AucTeX menu items to correspond to my dvi viewer, but it is all 
AucTex. I hope this is clearer. Thanks for your interest.

Bob