Re: Suggestion / feature request

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

>> I often use doc-view mode with medium to large pdf/ps/dvi files, when
>> writing/modifying latex documents. Whether these are slides or a
>> document
>
> Not sure what we can do for dvi/ps files, but I use doc-view for my
> LaTeXing with pdflatex and have bumped into the same problem.

My main reason for not using doc-view when writing documents is that it
doesn't (and cannot) support forward/backward search using SyncTeX.

> Tassilo (doc-view maintainer) wasn't too excited by my change because
> it makes doc-view more complex and it only works for pdf (and it has a
> few other downsides

Hey, that shouldn't stop you from anything. ;-)

Over time, I've received some more mails from people using doc-view when
writing documents.  I've always thought that were just some weird souls,
but now we've reached a critical mass, and I come to agree that such a
lazy conversion fits the bill very well.  And of course, I wasn't really
up to implementing a feature I don't have a need for myself.  But since
you already have it and people request it, just go ahead for Emacs 24.2.

Bye,
Tassilo