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

[Tassilo Horn]

address@hidden (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes:

>> E.g., `pdf-sync-correlate-pdf' would return a list (file line column
>> search-regex) where the latter would only be used by `pdf-sync-goto-tex' if
>> column is -1 (in the hope that some future SyncTeX version will eventually
>> provide correct line numbers).
>
> According to the author of SyncTeX, it is the TeX engine the one that does not
> handle column positions, at least it was so in 2008 when he designed it:
>
> https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb29-3/tb93laurens.pdf

Good to know.  Then I hope the TeX engine will evolve eventually.

Bye,
Tassilo