[Bug-AUCTeX] glitch when opening dvi file with motif xdvi

[Artemio Gonzalez Lopez]

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Emacs  : XEmacs 21.5  (beta24) "dandelion" (+CVS-20060208) [Lucid] 
(powerpc-apple-darwin8.4.0) of Thu Feb  9 2006 on tillina.fis.ucm.es
Package: 2006-02-09

Lately I have been experiencing a minor glitch when opening a dvi file 
with xdvi from within auctex (in xemacs). The problem is that the xdvi 
window disappears as soon as the pointer is over one of the icons in the 
toolbar. The command used by auctex to launch xdvi is like the following:

xdvi -sourceposition "1544 ex-sol.tex" -editor "/opt/local/bin/gnuclient 
-q +%l %f" ex-sol.dvi

Strangely, the problem occurs only with some tex files. And it only 
happens when xdvi is called by auctex (in xemacs), not when the above 
command is entered in a terminal window directly. Also, if I add the 
-nofork option by hand the problem is solved, and I could configure 
auctex to use -nofork when opening all dvi files, but if that's the case 
I wonder whether this option should not be a default in auctex. By the 
way, I'm using xdvik version 22.84.13-CVS8 (@(#)Motif Version 2.3.0, 
runtime version 2.3) under Mac Os X 10.4.5. I have sent a message 
similar to this to the xdvi list, and here's Stefan Ulrich's answer:

> Not being an xemacs/auctex/OS X user, I don't know exactly what the
> problem with the icons is (ie why it's terminated exactly when the
> pointer is on an icon), but '-nofork' is indeed the right thing to
> invoke xdvi with in such a case, since it's the only way for emacs to
> keep control over the started process (checking the process status,
> catching errors etc.).
>
> I thought auctex would be using this option by default? (Maybe it's
> worth submitting a feature request to the auctex maintainers).
>

Cheers,

Artemio


current state:
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(setq
 AUCTeX-date "2006-02-09"
 window-system 'x
 LaTeX-version "2e"
 TeX-style-path '("style" "auto"
                  "/Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/auctex/style"
                  "/Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/var/auctex/")
 TeX-auto-save t
 TeX-parse-self t
 TeX-master t
 TeX-command-list '(("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) %S%(PDFout) \"%(mode)\\input %t\""
                     TeX-run-TeX nil (plain-tex-mode texinfo-mode ams-tex-mode)
                     :help "Run plain TeX")
                    ("LaTeX" "%l \"%(mode)\\input{%t}\"" TeX-run-TeX nil
                     (latex-mode doctex-mode) :help "Run LaTeX")
                    ("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %t" TeX-run-compile nil
                     (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with Info output")
                    ("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo --html %t" TeX-run-compile nil
                     (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with HTML output")
                    ("AmSTeX" "%(PDF)amstex %S%(PDFout) \"%(mode)\\input %t\""
                     TeX-run-TeX nil (ams-tex-mode) :help "Run AMSTeX")
                    ("ConTeXt" "texexec --once --texutil %(execopts)%t"
                     TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt once")
                    ("ConTeXt Full" "texexec %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil
                     (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt until completion")
                    ("ConTeXt Clean" "texutil --purgeall" TeX-run-interactive
                     nil (context-mode) :help "Clean temporary ConTeXt files")
                    ("BibTeX" "bibtex %s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil t :help
                     "Run BibTeX")
                    ("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard t t :help "Run Viewer")
                    ("Print" "%p" TeX-run-command t t :help "Print the file")
                    ("Queue" "%q" TeX-run-background nil t :help
                     "View the printer queue" :visible TeX-queue-command)
                    ("File" "%(o?)dvips -t a4 %d -o %f " TeX-run-command t t
                     :help "Generate PostScript file")
                    ("Index" "makeindex %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help
                     "Create index file")
                    ("Check" "lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode)
                     :help "Check LaTeX file for correctness")
                    ("ChkTeX" "chktex -v3 %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode))
                    ("Spell" "<ignored>" TeX-run-ispell-on-document nil t :help
                     "Spell-check the document")
                    ("GhostView" "gv %f" TeX-run-command t t :help
                     "Run GhostView")
                    ("ps2pdf" "ps2pdf %f" TeX-run-command t t :help
                     "Run ps2pdf")
                    ("Other" "" TeX-run-command t t :help
                     "Run an arbitrary command")
                    )
 )

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