Hi All,
Can I find any documentation for the --synctex-forward mechanism?
Suppose I run
zathura --synctex-forward 20:1:paper.tex paper.pdf
In 0.3.1, if an instance of zathura wasn't already showing paper.pdf,
this would fail with an unfriendly error message. In 0.3.4, it launches
a new instance if one isn't already running.
However, if you run
zathura --synctex-pid XXX --synctex-forward 20:1:paper.tex paper.pdf
then it succeeds (and exits immediately) if a process with ID XXX is
already showing paper.pdf, and launches a new instance with an error
message otherwise.
This makes things a little more inconvenient to script. (See my attached
hack script.) Can I suggest instead that if zathura is run with
--synctex-pid, then it *ALWAYS* returns immediately, and the exit status
signals whether it succeeded or failed.
This way, scripts can do something like:
zpid=$(<pidfile)
if ! zathura --synctex-pid $zpid --synctex-forward ... paper.pdf
# launch new instance and save PID in $pidfile
else
exit happily
fi
Of course, an internal option --synctex-pid-file XXX that implements the
above behaviour would be great; but given that it's easily scriptable
I'm not going to ask for that (unless other people find it useful too).
Best
Gautam
PS: Thanks a lot for creating a really really wonderful PDF viewer. Zathura
finally made me leave the horrors that are XDVI and switch to an
entirely PDF based setup.
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