Re: [AUCTeX] How to modify TeX-view-program-selection

[Joost Kremers]

On Thu, Sep 13 2018, Greg Bognar wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions.  Replacing "zathura" with "Zathura" 
> helps, but also
> removing the extra pair of parentheses around "((output-pdf 
> "Zathura")):

Yes, of course. I didn't notice that.

> > (setcdr (assq 'output-pdf TeX-view-program-selection) 
> > "Zathura")
>
> This leads to an error:
>
> Wrong type argument: listp, "Zathura"
>
> The value of TeX-view-program-selection:
>
> (((output-dvi has-no-display-manager)
>   "dvi2tty")
>  ((output-dvi style-pstricks)
>   "dvips and gv")
>  (output-dvi "xdvi")
>  (output-pdf . "Zathura")
>  (output-html "xdg-open"))
>
> I guess the problem is the extra period.

Yes. Again, my bad, I was too hasty. If you want to use setcdr 
(still don't know if there's a need ;-) you should enclose 
"Zathura" in a list:

(setcdr (assq 'output-pdf TeX-view-program-selection) (list 
"Zathura"))


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