AUCTeX, Miktex, Yap and the inverse search

AUCTeX, Miktex, Yap and the inverse search

[Daniel Wright]

Hello All!

I've just installed Miktex and AUCTeX 11.55 under windows.

When using latex with 'TeX-source-specials-mode' the forward search
with Yap works perfectly. However, an inverse search from yap opens up
the file at the correct line, but in a NEW emacs window, how can I
tell Yap to return to the right place in the buffer I was editing in
the ORIGINAL emacs window?

At the moment yap's inverse search command is configure to ' runemacs +%l "%f" '

Is there an emacs command line option that would force it back to the
original window? I can't seem to find one, or is it worth using a
different dvi viewer?

Hope this isn't too off-topic.
Thanks in advance!
Daniel.

Re: AUCTeX, Miktex, Yap and the inverse search

[David Kastrup]

Daniel Wright <daniel.d.wright@gmail.com> writes:

> I've just installed Miktex and AUCTeX 11.55 under windows.
>
> When using latex with 'TeX-source-specials-mode' the forward search
> with Yap works perfectly. However, an inverse search from yap opens up
> the file at the correct line, but in a NEW emacs window, how can I
> tell Yap to return to the right place in the buffer I was editing in
> the ORIGINAL emacs window?
>
> At the moment yap's inverse search command is configure to '
> runemacs +%l "%f" '
>
> Is there an emacs command line option that would force it back to
> the original window? I can't seem to find one, or is it worth using
> a different dvi viewer?

You should install "gnuclient" and configure yap to use it instead of
runemacs.  If gnuclient is installed, AUCTeX should be able to start
up the necessary server inside of Emacs automatically.

For all people that use Source Specials, I should also recommend
taking a look at preview-latex
<URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>: for a lot of situations
where Source Specials might be useful, it is quite more convenient.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: AUCTeX, Miktex, Yap and the inverse search

[Daniel Wright]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

> You should install "gnuclient" and configure yap to use it instead of
> runemacs.  If gnuclient is installed, AUCTeX should be able to start
> up the necessary server inside of Emacs automatically.

Yiiaaoow! Thanks! Now it's working like a dream :)

I downloaded gnuserv/gnuclient from:
<URL:http://www.wyrdrune.com/index.html?gnuserv.html~main>
followed the included instructions, customised 'TeX-output-view-style'
and configured yap to run with: 'gnuclientw +%l %f'

> For all people that use Source Specials, I should also recommend
> taking a look at preview-latex
> <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>: for a lot of situations
> where Source Specials might be useful, it is quite more convenient.

Thanks for the bonus tip! I'll be checking that out in due course.

Greetings/MfG,
Daniel.