From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: thales1@protonmail.com, 73854@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#73854: 29.4; tex-mode: unexpected and inconsistent behaviour of `tex-compile`, `tex-file`, and `tex-view`
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:55:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86o73dhjbe.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o73dyfnp.fsf@gmx.net> (message from Stephen Berman on Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:22:02 +0200)
> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, thales1@protonmail.com,
> 73854@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:22:02 +0200
>
> > diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el b/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el
> > index 6fc49800018..f27bd1620e1 100644
> > --- a/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el
> > +++ b/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el
> > @@ -2212,6 +2212,7 @@ tex-compile-commands
> > t "%r.dvi")
> > ("xdvi %r &" "%r.dvi")
> > ("\\doc-view \"%r.pdf\"" "%r.pdf")
> > + ("evince %r.pdf &" "%r.pdf")
> > ("xpdf %r.pdf &" "%r.pdf")
> > ("gv %r.ps &" "%r.ps")
> > ("yap %r &" "%r.dvi")
>
> Indeed, with a suitable entry for viewing a PDF, typing `C-c C-c' twice
> does the job. In my case, however, a suitable entry is not evince,
> since I don't have that program installed here, but I do have mupdf and
> with an entry for it, `C-c C-c' calls it and the PDF is displayed. So
> this raises the question of whether tex-compile-commands should be
> enhanced with all known free software PDF viewers, or, more
> maintainer-friendly, turned into a defcustom, so users can just added
> their preferred entries. But that's a complementary issue to the
> present bug report, since without my patch for tex-compile even with a
> suitable entry in tex-compile-commands, `C-c C-v' (tex-view) still
> complains "No appropriate ‘.dvi’ file could be found" and does not call
> the program specified by tex-dvi-view-command to display the PDF. So
> should I just go ahead and install my patch? And if so, to master or to
> emacs-30 (which has the same issue)?
Please install on master, and thanks.
As for the patch to tex-compile-commands, I think both evince and
mupdf entries should be added to it. Whether to make it a defcustom
is a separate issue, with much wider consequences, and I wouldn't do
that at this time.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-17 18:36 bug#73854: 29.4; tex-mode: unexpected and inconsistent behaviour of `tex-compile`, `tex-file`, and `tex-view` Thalis Charakas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-19 9:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-19 11:31 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-19 11:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-19 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-21 9:22 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-21 9:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-10-21 10:53 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-21 11:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-21 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-21 13:33 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-21 13:38 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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