2017-12-02 19:52 GMT+01:00 Reuben Thomas <[email protected]>: > Thanks very much to both of you for your feedback. > > On 1 December 2017 at 21:49, Arash Esbati <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> it is also the default for Yap, dviout, SumatraPDF. And this is the >> problem with defaults: Never 100% satisfied customers. > > > The problem in this case is not the default per se (though it is hard to > work out how to configure it: the customize interface for this setting is > overcomplicated), it is that the default is different for different > previewers. The default should (as far as possible) be the same, so that > changing viewers does not change the behaviour. > > Mosè said: "Without this option you'll need to close Okular to view again > (C-c C-v) the document without spawing several instances of the viewer for > the same document." > > This is not exactly true: once Okular (or Evince) has been spawned, there is > no need to run the View command again: both viewers auto-reload.
You're saying that it isn't necessary, this doesn't make my previous statement false --- I mentioned C-c C-v for a reason. Switching to the viewer with C-c C-v is what I do, rather than using the window manager to get to the viewer: I have always several programs open at the same time, Emacs' and Okular's windows are rarely the closest ones. Also, C-c C-a opens the viewer with TeX-view at the end of compilation, but this is optional. The more I think about this, the more I'm convinced that the issue you raised is sensible but the best solution would be to fix first upstream in Okular. It'd be a good improvement. After that, I'll be more than happy to remove the --unique option. If you are working with many documents at the same time (say 3-4 or even more) switching between Emacs and the wanted document can be really annoying, using C-c C-v brings to focus the right instance of the viewer. This is what Evince does and is much more convenient. > For the Customize interface, I'm not sure what to suggest. The current > interface is far too complicated, but if it were made simpler (e.g. to have > a "single instance" toggle) then it would not be so general. This is an interesting suggestion but probably not so easy to adopt. > Arash, you mention editing .emacs; this is a shame. Please, there is no need to put shame on anyone. > It's not the 1990s any > more: I don't even have a .emacs file, I have .emacs.d/init.el I honestly don't get what you mean here. > but more to > the point, the default should be to say "customize foo to bar". To advise > editing .emacs is either a) confusing, b) an admission that Customization > isn't manageable, or c) both. Well, he did suggest you to customize `TeX-view-program-list', *and* provided you, as a possibility, with two lines of code to add to your init file to accomplish the same task. It's up to you to decide what's best for you. I really don't see what's the problem here. Bye, Mosè _______________________________________________ bug-auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-auctex
