[ESS] ess and AUCTeX

[Vitalie Spinu]

  >> Oliver Jones <ojones at wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de>
  >> on Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:54:29 +0100 wrote:

  > Hi Vitalie,

  > thanks for that fast reply!

  > I tried changing ess-pdf-viewer-pref by giving the full path to the executable
  > of SumatraPDF, but Acrobat still show up...

Strange, what version of ESS you are using?

I will include SumatraPDF into our executables. What is the executable
name on windows? 

    Vitalie

  > As far as I know SumatraPDF is the only pdf viewer on MS Windows that supports
  > inverse and forward search. It is the default viewer in TeXnicCenter (Editor for
  > LaTeX) and in RStudio (a reasonable new Editor for R and LaTeX).
  > Including it as one of the options and getting it to work for inverse and
  > forward search would make a lot of MS Windows users happy. :-)
  > In case you are interested, here is a How-to for setting it up with AUCTeX:
  > http://www.barik.net/archive/2012/07/18/154432/

  > Best
  > Oliver

  > Am 17.01.2013 20:36, schrieb Vitalie Spinu:
  >> >>  Oliver Jones<ojones at wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de>
  >> >>  on Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:19:38 +0100 wrote:
  >> 
  >> >  Hi everyone,
  >> 
  >> >  searching the archives for help relating integration of ess and AUCTeX I found
  >> >  this interesting post:
  >> >  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.ess.general/4960It's quit old but I have the same problem, i.e.
  >> 
  >> >  In ess M-n s works fine but I'm not satisfied with the acrobat reader as the
  >> >  default viewer after M-n P.
  >> 
  >> The default is machine dependent. Customize ess-pdf-viewer-pref for your
  >> needs.
  >> 
  >> If SumatraPDF is a common viewer we can include it in the list of
  >> checked viewers; currently:
  >> 
  >> ╭──────── #381 ─ /home/vitoshka/ESS/git/lisp/ess.el ──
  >> │                     ;;      (executable-find ess-pdf-viewer-pref))
  >> │                     (executable-find "evince")
  >> │                     (executable-find "kpdf")
  >> │                     (executable-find "okular")
  >> │                     (executable-find "xpdf")
  >> │                     (executable-find "acroread")
  >> │                     (executable-find "xdg-open")
  >> │                     ;; this one is wrongly wrong, (ok for time being as it is use donly in swv)
  >> │                     (car (ess-get-words-from-vector
  >> │                           "getOption(\"pdfviewer\")\n"))
  >> ╰──────── #390 ─
  >> 
  >> HTH,
  >> 
  >> Vitalie
  >> 
  >> 
  >> >  In AUCTeX I got SumatraPDF as my viewer for the usual reasons (inverse and forward search).
  >> 
  >> >  After clicking Noweb ->  Sweaving, Tangling, ... ->  AUCTeX Interface I can use
  >> >  C-c C-c Sweave RET
  >> >  but I get the following error message:
  >> >  Running `Sweave' on `Loesung_07' with ``R CMD Sweave "Loesung_07.Rnw"''
  >> >  The Command "R" is either misspelled or couldn't be found.
  >> 
  >> >  (where I translated the error message into English)
  >> 
  >> >  I can't imagine that there is no solution, since Sweave-ing and LaTeX-ing with
  >> >  emacs, AUCTeX and ess should be standard procedure for a lot of people. Or am I
  >> >  wrong?
  >> 
  >> >  Best
  >> >  Oliver