Re: [AUCTeX] OT: Have a look at PDF Tools (new PDF viewer for Emacs)

[Tassilo Horn]

Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:

>> Maybe it additionally extracts the word at the click position and
>> then searches forward after having jumped to the synctex-provided
>> line.
>
> That's an interesting guess.

Although it's flaky.  E.g., if the word is "the", then the chances are
high there are multiple occurences in a line.  Maybe taking the current
word at click-position + the next N words (and then searching so that
space also matches \n) might work.  But that will fail in situations
where the click-pos is "hello world" but the actual tex text is "hello
\texttt{world}".

If you want, you can play with those suggestions in TeXStudio to see if
it uses such a trick...

> pdf-tools is able to perform search in the PDF file, so it should
> theoretically possible to implement this also there.

Yes.

Bye,
Tassilo