Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: Accessing TeX-related documentation

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * Christian Schlauer (2005-11-18) writes:
>
>> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I'll have to check if MikTeX offers something similar.
>>
>> ,----
>> | Usage: texdoc [OPTIONS] NAME
>> |   Search for NAME in the TeX documentation and start a viewer.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Unrelated to MikTeX: Now I only need a way to access the return value
> and/or stdout of texdoc in order to inform the user about the outcome
> of the texdoc call.  AFAICS this is not possible with `call-process'.
> And `start-process' does not work (yet) with texdoc.

I am not completely sure about start-process.  Would it possibly work
as long as one refrains from calling delete-process in the process
sentinel?

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