[OS X Emacs] Aquamacs 1.5 and SyncTeX

[David Reitter]

How far off is it (Aquamacs->Skim)?
Only the paragraph (+- 1) is guaranteed when you use soft wrap rather  
that hard line breaks.

Once AUCTeX has a release out, I can look into making it work with  
Command-Shift-Click.

- D


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On 21 Sep 2008, at 18:35, Jeremy Van Cleve wrote:

> Thanks for the quick reply David,
>
> (file-line-number) returns the correct line number even when the  
> mode-line shows (??).
> Generally, I use soft wrap, but not longlines-mode.  I tried opening  
> a new buffer and pasting my whole document with both soft and hard  
> wrap and found that after scrolling about 140 lines into the  
> document, the mode-line starts displaying (??) and won't return the  
> line number even after deleting all the text.  Up to line 140, the  
> text is about 18700 characters.  The whole file is 128478  
> characters.  The point at which the mode-line begins displaying (??)  
> isn't in the middle of a particularly long line (previous lines  
> whose numbers displayed were over 1500 characters long), so maybe  
> its the total buffer length, but I checked 'line-number-display- 
> limit', which has a 'nil' value.  'line-number-display-limit-width'  
> is 200.
>
> best,
>
> jeremy
>
> David Reitter wrote:
>> OK, you can see in auctex-config.el how we're getting at the line  
>> number.
>> What does `file-line-number' return in your case? (i.e., do M-:  
>> (file-line-number) RET)  Is this correct?
>>
>> Do you have longlines-mode on, or soft wrap (Option menu)?
>>
>> Is it a really large file that you're editing?
>> I'm adding, below, the documentation string for `line-number-mode'.
>>
>>
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>>
>> line-number-mode is an interactive compiled Lisp function in  
>> `simple.el'.
>> It is bound to <menu-bar> <options> <showhide> <line-number-mode>.
>> (line-number-mode &optional arg)
>>
>> Toggle Line Number mode.
>> With arg, turn Line Number mode on if arg is positive, otherwise
>> turn it off.  When Line Number mode is enabled, the line number
>> appears in the mode line.
>>
>> Line numbers do not appear for very large buffers and buffers
>> with very long lines; see variables `line-number-display-limit'
>> and `line-number-display-limit-width'.
>>
>> [back]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 21 Sep 2008, at 15:38, Jeremy Van Cleve wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you much to all who responded!
>>>
>>> I have been able to modify the TeX-command-list to use the "- 
>>> synctex=1" option and produce a .synctex.gz file, but I have had  
>>> trouble getting the synchronization to work properly.  I can get  
>>> Aquamacs to bring the window focus to Skim but the location in the  
>>> pdf is far from the location in the source; likewise, when I try  
>>> to move from the Skim to the source, the line number that Aquamacs  
>>> moves to is incorrect.  Since support for synchronization using  
>>> SyncTeX in AUCTeX was in the AUCTeX CVS, I downloaded the file  
>>> that included the new "tex-source-correlate-mode" (tex.el), byte  
>>> compiled it, and stuck it in the "Aquamacs Emacs.app/Contents/ 
>>> Resources/site-lisp/edit-modes/auctex" directory.  However, after  
>>> turning on the mode, it didn't correct synchronization with Skim.   
>>> One thing I have noticed since upgrading to Aquamacs 1.5rc3 is  
>>> that when I'm editing a LaTeX document in LaTeX-mode, line numbers  
>>> do not show up at the bottom of the buffer; rather Aquamacs shows  
>>> (??,col#).  Maybe this is part of the problem if Aquamacs is  
>>> having trouble determining the line number in the source.  I have  
>>> noticed that the line number shows up properly in other modes  
>>> (e.g. MATLAB).
>>>
>>> Thank again,
>>>
>>> Jeremy
>>>
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