[Bug-AUCTeX] bug#19121: bug#19121: bug#19121: AUCTeX should report an error if selected viewer fails

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi David,

2014-11-23 13:12 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>> Does someone have other suggestions?
>
> The only alternative I see is not to detach the viewing process (or you
> won't get any information about the process).  You'd want specially
> named process buffers for View/Compile/etc then in order to avoid "a
> compilation is in progress.  Abort?" prompts and so on.  Changing to a
> detached process, IIRC, solved a number of headaches.  It might be
> possible to get rid of most of them in some other way.  However, having
> several viewers into the same document open would then likely not be
> workable.  Also working with source specials and readjusting the
> position, which tends to require another call of the same executable
> without killing the previous one, would likely get into trouble.

Indeed I thought about not discarding the output of the command, but
didn't come up with a simple solution.

In the following days I'll expand and refine my previous patch.

Bye,
Mosè