Re: [AUCTeX] Re: using xpdf instead of acroread for TeX-doc

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * Sebastian P. Luque (2006-09-11) writes:
>
>> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:42:44 +0200,
>> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> * Sebastian P. Luque (2006-09-11) writes:
>>>> How can we tell TeX-doc to use xpdf instead of acroread for opening
>>>> *.pdf files?
>>
>>> man texdoc
>>
>> Thanks, of course (I should've thought of it)!
>
> Not really.  It's not so obvious.  While the names `TeX-doc' and
> `texdoc' sound similar, `TeX-doc' is an interface for multiple
> backends.
>
>> However, I'm not sure
>> where I should set the variable.  I tried adding it to ~/.bashrc, but it
>> has no effect (export TEXDOCVIEW_pdf='xpdf %s').
>
> This works fine for me (GDM and Blackbox window manager).  In my case
> ~/.bash_profile sources ~/.bashrc.  Maybe that's the difference.  In
> any case it probably depends upon the programs you are using on X
> (window manager or desktop environment) reading such files.

Restarting the X session might be required for this to take effect.

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