[AUCTeX-devel] Re: [AUCTeX] Inverse Search with Evince & DBUS

[Antoine Levitt]

04/04/11 04:20, Rasmus
>> Forward sync with evince still isn't as good as it could be. See for
>> instance http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1716268, which offers
>> synchronisation up to the line number, with a nice red box around the
>> current line. But it seems too specific to be included in auctex. Shame
>> there isn't a more general interface to communicate between editors and
>> viewers.
>
> It is rather trivial to make Emacs call the "Ubuntu"-scripts. 
>
> Using somewhat modefied scripts I am able to have forward and backward
> search with Evince+Emacs. Very nice!
>
> BTW: I use the latest release (not CVS). From the other posts it seems
> mostly redundant to use external synctex scripts with CVS, no? (Except
> for the indeed very nice red box)

Except for the red box and synchronisation at the line level, yes.