Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: [AUCTeX-diffs] Changes to auctex/doc/todo.texi

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2005-04-28) writes:

> Call me crazy.

More like utterly insane. (c;

Regarding the release: I am currently working on the selection of
viewers which is progressing rather slowly.  At the current state it
seems like this will introduce some incompatible changes, so it might
not be feasible for the upcoming release anyway.

If you want to get rid of tex-mik.el and tex-fptex.el, we could
probably use some ugly hacks to switch viewers in
`TeX-output-view-style' and the other related stuff with help of a
customizable variable (`TeX-tex-system' or something like that).  But
as this is not where I am heading to, I would not wanna introduce it
for just one release.

What I am after is a very user-friendly interface where there is a
(mostly internal) list of viewers and the user can pick one of those
by some "human-readable" name; i.e. you can say: "As DVI viewer I
wanna have xdvi, the HTML viewer should be Mozilla Firefox ...".  All
this is then mapped internally to appropriate conditions for the
document and output files as well as the options to pass to the
viewer.  The (initial) value of the variable which holds the mapping
of viewer type to viewer program can then be set by a Custom theme.
This might of course be similar to the hypothetical `TeX-tex-system'
variable mentioned above.  But all this will not happen soon and the
approach might as well turn out as a dead end.

-- 
Ralf