Re: [AUCTeX] OT: Have a look at PDF Tools (new PDF viewer for Emacs)

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Tassilo Horn writes:

> E.g., `pdf-sync-correlate-pdf' would return a list (file line 
> column search-regex) where the latter would only be used by 
> `pdf-sync-goto-tex' if column is -1 (in the hope that some 
> future SyncTeX version will eventually provide correct line 
> numbers).

According to the author of SyncTeX, it is the TeX engine the one 
that does not handle column positions, at least it was so in 2008 
when he designed it:

https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb29-3/tb93laurens.pdf

Best,
--
Jorge.