I am CC'ing this to interested parties, including debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org for discussion.
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: emacs-goodies-el > Version: 25.1-1 > Severity: wishlist > > As you probably know, Emacs is used quite a lot by people that use LaTeX > and in the usual workflow of generating a LaTeX document, one usually > goes through the compilation of the source and then sees the output > using a variety of modes, the most common of which is seeing a DVI > output file. > > Since LaTeX supports source specials and the xdvi in current Debian > versions support forward and backward searching, it would be a very good > addition if the file xdvi-search.el could be added to the package > emacs-goodies-el. > > The xdvi-search.el file can be obtained from: > <http://xdvi.sourceforge.net/xdvi-search.el>. Thanks. This would be useful to me also as I also use LaTeX. I just tried this at work on sarge and xdvi wasn't compiled with this support, so it didn't work. I'll try it at home on unstable. I wonder if users would be better served if this were included either in auctex or in some part of tetex (perhaps tetex-extra). So my questions for everybody are: - Which package do you think xdvi-search.el should be added to? - If you maintain tetex or auctex, do you think it should o in your package? Are you willing to add it? Note: the author needs to run `M-x checkdoc' on it. I'll file a bug report at Sourceforge. -- Peter
