Re: [AUCTeX-devel] [PATCH] Add support for SumatraPDF viewer

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi Arash,

2016-02-09 21:54 GMT+01:00 Arash Esbati <address@hidden>:
> Hi Mosè,
>
> Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:
>> We have other default viewers for Windows, none of them has an
>> hard-coded path, how do they work, if they work at all?
>
> Within AUCTeX?  Which one do you mean?  I see none, or am I missing
> something?
>
> (defvar TeX-view-program-list-builtin
>   (cond
>    ((eq system-type 'windows-nt)
>     '(("Yap" ("yap -1" (mode-io-correlate " -s %n%b") " %o") "yap")
>       ("dvips and start" "dvips %d -o && start \"\" %f" "dvips")
>       ("start" "start \"\" %o")))
>     ((eq system-type 'darwin)
>       ...

Yes, exactly, and I don't see absolute paths here.  So, apart from
"start" that isn't a real binary, how do they work?  Are placed in a
PATH directory or what?

Bye,
Mosè