Re: [AUCTeX] synctex and evince 2.32

[Stephen Eglen]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> wrote:

> * Stephen Eglen (2010-10-20) writes:
> 
> > In the Ubuntu 10.10 release, evince was updated, and has synctex support
> > (for backward searching).  Has anyone got it working with auctex?  I
> > couldn't see much documentation about synctex support in evince to get
> > this working.
> 
> Hm, with a quick internet search I could not find much documentation
> either.  But the search revealed a discussion on the AUCTeX development
> list earlier this year:
> 
> <URL:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.auctex.devel/2490>
> 
> The main problem is that Evince uses a Dbus interface for the
> synchronization for which we don't have support in AUCTeX yet.  If
> somebody wants to work on that, please do.  (An alternative would be to
> add a command line interface for specifying the editor to Evince. (c;)
> 
> -- 
> Ralf

Thanks for this Ralf;  time-willing I can follow up with Jose about
this, although I'd also prefer a commandline interface to dbus (although
that's because I don't have experience with dbus!)

Stephen