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

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2005-11-20) writes:

> The problem with start-process was that it caused for example
> xdvi -source-special
> to be killed when it tried detaching itself from the controlling tty.
>
> So TeX-run-discard was changed not to use start-process, and the
> viewer commands were changed to use TeX-run-discard instead of, I
> think, TeX-run-silent.

I just played with that a bit by using `TeX-run-silent' for the View
command, and xdvi (called with source specials options) shows up if
`process-connection-type' is bound to nil.  Like that we could get
exit status and output from the process.

-- 
Ralf