Re: [O] Reverse lookup from pdf to org?

[Rainer M Krug]

Suvayu Ali <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 09:18:43AM +0100, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> Suvayu Ali <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:07:54AM +0100, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> >> Hi
>> >> 
>> >> I am working on a longish document which will be converted to pdf, and I
>> >> am doing debugging of scripts at the moment.
>> >> 
>> >> Therefore I export the document to pdf, and look for errors there. Now I
>> >> have to find the corresponding section in the org file - possible, but
>> >> tedious.
>> >> 
>> >> Would it be possibler to include reverse-lookup in org, so that I click
>> >> in the pdf, and the cursor jumps to the position in the org document? I
>> >> really like this feature when e.g. using LyX. 
>> >> 
>> >> I have no idea how this could be implemented and if this would be
>> >> difficult, but I think this could be a useful feature for longer 
>> >> documents.
>> >
>> > I think this is only possible with synctex.  See this thread:
>> > <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/78111>
>> >
>> > Hope this helps,
>> 
>> Yes - but is there any progress to get it working? The file is not
>> included in the contrib directory.
>
> In another thread Aaron says he does not use it regularly, and finds the
> solution too "fiddly".  I guess that would mean there has been no more
> progress on this.

Thanks a lot,

Rainer

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