Re: [AUCTeX] Re: forward/inverse search

[Bjørn Haagensen]

On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 18:39:35 +0200, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> Bjørn Haagensen <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 15:34:35 +0200, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Bjørn Haagensen <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > > I was wondering about the current state on forward/inverse search in
> > > > multifile documents? Is it supposed to work?
> > >
> > > Yes.
> > >
> > > > 'xdvi-motif.bin: Fatal error: ~/CVS/work/main.dvi: No such file.'
> > >
> > > My guess is that the ~ character is at fault here.  ~/ is not a
> > > regular directory name in many circumstances.
> >
> > Ok thanks for the answer. I don't know much about this, but I think the
> > problem is related to the 'xdvi-jump-to-line*'-functions in
> > 'xdvi-search.el' I'm using xdvik-22.84.5 and xdvi-search.el revision  
> > 1.34.
> > The reason I think so is because after having replaced the relative  
> > paths
> > in the '%%% TeX-master: "..."' declarations with absolute paths it works
> > (if I use 'xdvi-jump-to-line-fullpath'
>
> Is there a reason you are using xdvi-search.el?  AUCTeX has pretty
> solid facilities for both forward and reverse search built in.  We
> have taken a lot of pains to make it work optimally, and so it is a
> bit strange if people use other packages and then complain that it
> does not work.

Ok, my mistake. I've removed xdvi-search.el and things work perfectly now.  
Based on the information on the xdvik-webpage I was under the impression  
that xdvi-search.el was a requirement for this feature to work.

Bjørn