Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Make TeX output buffer inherit from special-mode

[Tassilo Horn]

Ivan Andrus <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Ivan,

>>>> In my opinion, jumping to the previous error is more important in
>>>> output buffers than toggling TeX-PDF-mode.  The latter has nothing
>>>> to do with debugging the output.
>>> 
>>> I agree, but it isn't supported.  If you mean that I should reserve
>>> the key for when it is supported, that's probably a good idea.
>> 
>> Oh, that's a pitty!
>
> Isn't it though?  :-(
>
>> Hm, if we'd save the current error number in addition to file,
>> offset, and point, then we could define `TeX-previous-error' as
>> (TeX-next-error (1- TeX-error-number)), right?  Feel free to give
>> that a try (or any other solution to this problem).
>
> I thought of that, but I wasn't sure how hard it would be.  I'll give
> it a go, but I think it should be a separate patch from this one.

Yes, so let's just reserve the p key for now.

> Thanks for taking the time to review this.  I probably won't get a
> chance to work on the documentation until next week.

You're welcome.  Feel free to submit a code-only patch with the few
modifications we've just discussed.  I'm going to apply it right away,
and beat you to write the docs in the next week. ;-)

Thanks a lot,
Tassilo