Re: DDE support of AUCTeX.

[Tassilo Horn]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

>> I noticed on the wiki [1], which says that the DDE support is absent
>> in AUCTeX, as shown in the attachment. I wonder whether this is true.
>>
>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TeX_editors
>
> Reading [Note 8] suggests that with DDE forward/backward sync via other
> means than command-line arguments is meant.  If that's the case, then
> AUCTeX does have support for that with certain viewers, e.g., AUCTeX and
> Evince and its derivatives such as Atril communicate via DBUS (if
> available), AUCTeX and pdf-tools communicate directly via Lisp.

Well, after reading the DDL article: if the statement is limited to that
concrete implementation of inter-process communication used in early
versions of MS windows and OS/2, then the "No" for AUCTeX is obviously
correct.

Bye,
Tassilo