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29.4; tex-mode: unexpected and inconsistent behaviour of `tex-compile`, `tex-file`, and `tex-view`

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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: thales1 <at> protonmail.com, 73854 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#73854: 29.4; tex-mode: unexpected and inconsistent behaviour of `tex-compile`, `tex-file`, and `tex-view`
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:53:39 +0200

On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:55:01 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  thales1 <at> protonmail.com,
>>   73854 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:22:02 +0200
>> 
>> > diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el b/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el
>> > index 6fc49800018..f27bd1620e1 100644
>> > --- a/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el
>> > +++ b/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el
>> > @@ -2212,6 +2212,7 @@ tex-compile-commands
>> >       t "%r.dvi")
>> >      ("xdvi %r &" "%r.dvi")
>> >      ("\\doc-view \"%r.pdf\"" "%r.pdf")
>> > +    ("evince %r.pdf &" "%r.pdf")
>> >      ("xpdf %r.pdf &" "%r.pdf")
>> >      ("gv %r.ps &" "%r.ps")
>> >      ("yap %r &" "%r.dvi")
>> 
>> Indeed, with a suitable entry for viewing a PDF, typing `C-c C-c' twice
>> does the job.  In my case, however, a suitable entry is not evince,
>> since I don't have that program installed here, but I do have mupdf and
>> with an entry for it, `C-c C-c' calls it and the PDF is displayed.  So
>> this raises the question of whether tex-compile-commands should be
>> enhanced with all known free software PDF viewers, or, more
>> maintainer-friendly, turned into a defcustom, so users can just added
>> their preferred entries.  But that's a complementary issue to the
>> present bug report, since without my patch for tex-compile even with a
>> suitable entry in tex-compile-commands, `C-c C-v' (tex-view) still
>> complains "No appropriate ‘.dvi’ file could be found" and does not call
>> the program specified by tex-dvi-view-command to display the PDF.  So
>> should I just go ahead and install my patch?  And if so, to master or to
>> emacs-30 (which has the same issue)?
>
> Please install on master, and thanks.

Done in commit 1f8fbae8df7.  I also updated the doc string of
tex-print-file to mention tex-compile.

> As for the patch to tex-compile-commands, I think both evince and
> mupdf entries should be added to it.

I added these in the commit as well.

>                                       Whether to make it a defcustom
> is a separate issue, with much wider consequences, and I wouldn't do
> that at this time.

Ok.  Should the OP confirm the fix before we close the bug?

Steve Berman

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