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

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi Tassilo,

2015-02-04 21:00 GMT+01:00 Tassilo Horn <address@hidden>:
> Hi all,
>
> just in case you didn't already know PDF Tools
>
>   https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools
>
> you might want to give it a whirl.  It's a new PDF viewer for Emacs
> which is somehow similar to Emacs' built-in `doc-view-mode', except that
> it is much more advanced.  For example, you can
>
>   - mark and copy text in the PDF
>   - click links in the PDF
>   - have a TOC/outline in the menu bar
>   - isearch with match-highlighting

It looks very promising, thanks!

> and tons of other features.  Oh, and forward/backward search work out of
> the box with AUCTeX/SyncTex.

Well, we only need an appropriate entry in
`TeX-view-program-list-builtin' then ;-)

When using forward/backward search in TeXstudio with its embedded
viewer, you are direct to the exact word selected, not just the line.
I wonder if it's possible to implement such a feature also for AUCTeX
and pdf-tools.

Bye,
Mosè