19557 2009-04-09 21:48:58 +0400 an installed program should be used for viewing DVI 2014-11-05 20:42:36 +0300 1 1 3 Distributions Branch 4.1 emacs-mode-auctex unspecified all Linux CLOSED WONTFIX P2 enhancement --- 19558 1 imz nobody qa-4.1 oldest_to_newest 89090 0 imz 2009-04-09 21:48:58 +0400 evince-2.22.2-alt0.M41.1 emacs22-common-22.2-alt5 emacs-mode-auctex-11.85-alt1 xdvi is not installed I opened a LaTeX file in Emacs, C-c C-c (LaTeX), C-c C-c (View), and it wanted to run: xdvi a.dvi although xdvi is not installed on this system. But evince is! Expected: AUCTeX detects the installed program to view DVI, and uses it. (A trivial thing in modern times; something like that is expected from an OS nowadays, not manual setup of viewers for different types of files.) Comments on implementation of the feature: AFAIR, this feature has been partially implemented for xdvi (Emacs gets told whether xdvi is available), dvips, dvilj etc. by making tetex-{xdvi,dvips,dvilj} put a scriptlet into /etc/emacs/site-start.d/ , which sets the values of the relevant Emacs variables. To complete this, probably, *all* the DVI viewers (incl. evince) should put such a scriptlet to /etc/emacs/site-start.d/ , to inform Emacs how it can be used to view DVI. Another way would be to use the more common "database" of filetype-program associations (I don't know how it is called), so that Emacs just gives a command like "open a.dvi", and the system decides which program that is available to use. A similar report about PDF: #19236 89091 1 imz 2009-04-09 21:50:18 +0400 A similar report about using the *installed* evince for viewing DVI (instead of the not available xdvi): https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19557 . 148657 2 mike 2014-11-05 20:42:36 +0300 В 4.1/branch исправления не будут вноситься уже технически (заглушена очередь на сборку), поэтому прошу ошибки, актуальные для sisyphus/p7/t7, перевесить на текущие ветки или сизиф.