Re: [AUCTeX] Clicking on the pdf to jump to the right place?

[Ralf Angeli]

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* Damien Cassou (2007-06-07) writes:

> 2007/6/7, Ralf Angeli <address@hidden>:
>> * Damien Cassou (2007-06-07) writes:
>>
>> > is it possible that when I click somewhere in xpdf, emacs jumps to the
>> > right place in the tex files? Is that related to pdfsync?
>>
>> Currently only forward search is implemented with pdfsync.sty.  For
>> reverse search support for something like vpe.sty would have to be
>> added.  Last time I tried this it turned out to be a bit difficult, so I
>> put that aside.
>
> I don't understand what are forward and reverse search. That's why I
> didn't understand the manual I guess. Can you explain me, or even
> better adds a note to the manual directly?

It's explained in the manual under
(info "(auctex)Viewing") <-- Type `C-x C-e' here.

Roughly, forward search is for jumping from the editor to the
corresponding place in the viewer and reverse search is for jumping from
the viewer to the respective place in the editor.

-- 
Ralf