Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] TeX-evince-sync-view

[David Kastrup]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>>>> AUCTeX first does
>>>>>
>>>>> (dbus-call-method
>>>>>   :session "org.gnome.evince.Daemon"
>>>>>   "/org/gnome/evince/Daemon"
>>>>>   "org.gnome.evince.Daemon"
>>>>>   "FindDocument"
>>>>>   "file:///home/horn/some.pdf"   ;; replace with some existing PDF
>>>>>   t) ;; C-x C-x here
>>>>>
>>>>> Does that work, i.e., open an evince window showing some.pdf?
>>>> This part works, much to my surprise. I pasted the above into the
>>>> scratch buffer, replaced by an existing PDF and ran M-x
>>>> eval-buffer. The PDF opened in a new evince window.
>>>
>>> Uh, that's strange.  That's exactly what TeX-evince-sync-view does.
>>
>> Perhaps it is not allowed to do that.
>
> How is lisp code run with eval-buffer different from lisp code called by
> a function with respect to permissions?  I mean, how can the
>
>   (dbus-call-method ...)
>
> above work, but calling
>
>   (defun TeX-evince-sync-view ()
>     (dbus-call-method ...))
>
> doesn't.

Ok, maybe I did not read this through well enough.  Here is one respect
in which both may differ: they may be run from different directories.

-- 
David Kastrup