Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] glitch when opening dvi file with motif xdvi

[Ralf Angeli]

* Artemio Gonzalez Lopez (2006-02-23) writes:

> Strangely, the problem occurs only with some tex files. And it only
> happens when xdvi is called by auctex (in xemacs), not when the above
> command is entered in a terminal window directly. Also, if I add the
> -nofork option by hand the problem is solved, and I could configure
> auctex to use -nofork when opening all dvi files, but if that's the
> case I wonder whether this option should not be a default in
> auctex.

There are likely still a lot of teTeX 2 installations around which
come with an xdvik version not supporting -nofork, so it might not be
a good idea making it the default.  We could check if xdvi supports
this option as it is being done in xdvi-search.el but I don't think
this is really worth the hassle.

In general it would be nice if we could require an xdvi supporting
-nofork because it will solve other issues as well (search the AUCTeX
lists for "nofork") but I don't think that we are there yet.

-- 
Ralf