Arash Esbati <[email protected]> writes: > jfbu <[email protected]> writes: > >> Perhaps I missed something obvious, but anyway, some >> years back I had to deal with this issue, and I describe >> here how I went about it: >> >> I defined a "xdvi" entry in TeX-view-program-list, >> which is the same as the one I found destined >> to Linux systems in TeX-view-program-list-builtin, >> with the sole difference of having replaced >> >> "%(o?)xdvi" >> >> with >> >> "open -a XQuartz && %(o?)xdvi" >> >> I then customized TeX-view-program-selection >> to let it map output-dvi not to "open" but to this "xdvi" viewer. >> >> I don't know how people go about it, but I >> am curious why I had to do these things, >> and why this is not the default in AUCTeX, on mac os x. >> >> (I hope only naivety and not arrogance will be seen >> in my belief that my private customizations should >> be made world-wide default ;-) the point of my message >> is to ask if someone has a better way to go about this) > > (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved > at the time.) > > Thanks for the suggestion. Do you think it is still relevant? My > concern is that on macOS, you have install XQuartz first before you can > run xdvi, and I'm not sure how many people know and do this. I suggest > to put this in the FAQ. WDYT?
I had a look and it seems documented that one needs XQuartz in order to run xdvi on macOS[1]. So people know what they're doing in this case, and adding this addition to AUCTeX shouldn't be a big deal. So this report is a "wontfix" and therefore I'm closing it. Best, Arash Footnotes: [1] https://tug.org/mactex/mactex-download.html _______________________________________________ bug-auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-auctex
