Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] TeX-evince-sync-view

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Arildsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Since I upgraded to the latest Ubuntu (13.04), I have not been able to
> view LaTeX output PDFs from Emacs (AUCTeX).
> Pressing C-c C-c or C-c C-v suggests viewing the document usingthe
> command 'TeX-evince-sync-view. Apparently, this command does not
> work. I have tried the workaround described here:
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/106889/change-view-command-in-emacs-and-auctex-pdf-mode,
> but this is not satisfactory. I would like the built-in view command
> to just work instead.
> I have observed this in Emacs 23.4.1 as well as 24.2.1, using AUCTeX
> 11.87 (all Ubuntu-supplied).
> I have seen the bug report (and answer) here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-auctex/2013-05/msg00011.html,
> but I do not experience the exact same problem. In my case, the
> command does not launch Evince or update the view of an already open
> Evince, neither does it give any error message so I have no clue what
> is going on.
> Just to be sure it has not already been fixed, I cloned the AUCTeX git
> repo and installed the latest version (and uninstalled the Ubuntu
> AUCTeX package). This is git revision
> 25ac9c5db93363cecd7347d5db5255efec28ee8a from Aug 3rd. It still does
> not work, neither in Emacs 23 nor Emacs 24.
> If all else fails, can you suggest a workaround such as configuring a
> working Evince command in Emacs (without sync if necessary) to replace
> the built-in TeX-evince-sync-view?

Evince will likely need to be able to call emacsclient or something.
Ubuntu and apparmor are conspiring to make that hard.  Try looking at
<URL:http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/usage/configuring-the-system-for-point-and-click>
for some inspiration of what kind of jiggery-pokery might be required to
get this to work.

The application/executable naming schemes of LilyPond are different from
that of Emacs/AUCTeX, but the kind of work needed for getting this off
the ground might be related, except for the stuff that is sent over
Dbus.

-- 
David Kastrup