bug#22610: Auctex doesn't work with Atril (Mate's version of evince)

[Antoine Levitt]

On 14 February 2016 at 20:12, Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> wrote:

2016-02-14 14:48 GMT+01:00 Mosè Giordano <address@hidden>:
> 2016-02-14 14:34 GMT+01:00 Antoine Levitt <address@hidden>:
>> Oh yes, sorry, I meant TeX-atril-sync-view. That's what I did (as you can
>> see from the dbus output)
>
> Sorry, I'm not versed into D-Bus communications (thanks to you I just
> discovered there is a command to monitor sent messages :-).  You first
> reported that Atril accepted almost the same syntax as Evince, apart
> the last argument in `TeX-evince-sync-view-1', then you noticed that
> the syntax had changed for that argument, is it possible that there
> have been other changes?
>
> You can also try to edebug the changed functions, like
> `TeX-evince-dbus-p', `TeX-evince-sync-view-1', and
> `TeX-source-correlate-mode'.

I managed to install Atril (1.12.2) and I confirm that forward search
doesn't work, while inverse search works like a charm.  I don't
understand: in Evince everything works, I can't find anything wrong in
the code (no typo, nor wrongly hard-coded "evince", like what I did in
a previous patch).  I'd think something changed on Atril side, but I
can't even find a documentation on how to set up the D-Bus
communication for SyncTeX.

Yes, I think something is wrong with Atril, or at least the API changed. For some reason the dbus API doesn't seem to have any documentation, and I'm too lazy to look at the code. I submitted a bug report to https://github.com/mate-desktop/atril/issues/186, we'll see.