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12.1; view with okular crashes

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From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
To: Ernst Reissner <rei3ner <at> arcor.de>
Cc: 40449 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40449: 12.1; view with okular crashes
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:03:34 +0100

Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Ernst,
>
> Ernst Reissner <rei3ner <at> arcor.de> writes:
>
>> In newest version of auctex, there is no tex view list any more.
>
> There is still a `TeX-view-program-list' but it is a user customizable
> variable which defaults to nil.  The predefined entries are in
> `TeX-view-program-list-builtin'.
>
>> The old one was
>>  '(TeX-view-program-list
>>    (quote
>>     (("Okular" "okular -unique %o#src:%n%(masterdir)./%b"))
>>     ))
>>
>> but as masterdir seems no longer supported, view crashes.
>> I modified:
>>
>>  '(TeX-view-program-list
>>    (quote
>>     ;(("Okular" "okular -unique %o#src:%n%(masterdir)./%b"))
>>      (("Okular" "okular -unique %o#src:%n./%b"))
>>     ))
>
> `TeX-view-program-list-builtin' has an entry for Okular which goes like
> this:
>
>     ("Okular" ("okular --unique %o" (mode-io-correlate "#src:%n%a")) "okular")
>
> %a is an expander defined like this in `TeX-expand-list-builtin', note
> the comment:
>
>     ;; Okular forward PDF search requires absolute path.
>     ("%a" (lambda nil (prin1-to-string (expand-file-name (buffer-file-name)))))
>
>> This works better but sometimes causes a crash with okular
>> if tried to tap on a menu item.
>> There is a workaround.
>> But of course this config is a workaround itself.
>
> I don't use Okular but in theory, it should be sufficient if you check
> the above variables for entries quoted (otherwise please update AUCTeX)
> and just put something like this in your init file:
>
>     (setq TeX-view-program-selection '((output-pdf "Okular")))
>
> Okular must be in $PATH then.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

No further comments, therefore I'm closing this report.

Best, Arash

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