ALT Linux Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing
| Summary: | an installed program should be used for viewing DVI | ||
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| Product: | Branch 4.1 | Reporter: | Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz> |
| Component: | emacs-mode-auctex | Assignee: | Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | qa-4.1 <qa-4.1> |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | all | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Bug Depends on: | 19558 | ||
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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 . 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. |
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