[ESS] configuring ess-pdf-view-pref for forward and inverse search.

[Stephen Eglen]

Following on from this thread last year, I see there is now a package
for patching the synctex output to allow for concordance between Rnw and
pdf.  There are also instructions for extending ESS to use it.
https://github.com/EmmanuelCharpentier/patchSynctex

https://github.com/EmmanuelCharpentier/patchSynctex/blob/master/man/patchSynctex-package.Rd#L79

Stephen

On Fri, Oct 17 2014, Stephen Eglen wrote:

> Thanks Martin; I should try and look into this;  in the meantime, there
> is also hope (thanks Ramon) that it should work with knitr:
>
> https://github.com/yihui/knitr/issues/133
>
> S
>
> On Fri, Oct 17 2014, Martin Maechler wrote:
>
>>>>>>> Raghu Naik <naik.raghu at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>     on Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:56:14 +0000 writes:
>>
>>     > Guys, I am new to emacs/auctex/ess and ubuntu as well.
>>
>>     > Based on some online search, I have been able to configure
>>     > my .tex documents for forward and inverse search with
>>     > Okular.
>>
>>     > I am having difficulty doing that when I use a .Rnw
>>     > file. My relevant .emacs code is below. I would appreciate
>>     > any help.
>>
>> Not really looking at  your .emacs  {lack of time ..}, but I see
>> you are using the 'synctex' option -- though  quite a bit
>> differently than we did (below).
>>
>> But: Yes, it is possible, I have done this -- with prompting and
>> help from Marius Hofert (in CC) who I think uses this much more
>> regularly than I do.
>>
>> It is important to use "synctex" when building the final PDF.
>> Also important is to use R package "patchDVI" to collaborate with synctex.
>>
>> We've used ESS for editing and running R etc, but used a
>> Makefile for final Sweaving and pdf production, also because the
>> final pdf was made from several *.tex, *.Rnw, *.R  *.sty ... files.
>>
>> Here are relevant parts of the Makefile
>> where you should note the Rscript call to  patchDVI::patchSynctex() :
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> PDFLATEX0 = pdflatex
>> PDFLATEX = $(PDFLATEX0) --shell-escape -synctex=1 -file-line-error
>> #TEXI = PDFLATEX='${PDFLATEX}' ${R_PROG} CMD texi2dvi -p
>> TEXI = PDFLATEX='${PDFLATEX}' texi2dvi -p
>> SWEAVE  = $(R) CMD Sweave --encoding=utf-8
>> STANGLE = $(R) CMD Stangle --encoding=utf-8
>> ifneq ($(strip $(RNW)),)
>>  PATCHSYNCTEX = `$R RHOME`/bin/Rscript -e "patchDVI::patchSynctex('$*.synctex')"
>> endif
>>
>> pdfDeps = $(RNW:=.tex) $(TEX:=.tex)  Sweave-JSS-prelim.R *.bib
>>
>>
>> [...............]
>>
>> %.pdf: %.tex $(pdfDeps)
>> 	$(TEXI) $<
>> 	$(PATCHSYNCTEX)
>>
>> %.tex: %.Rnw $(R_AUX)
>> 	@echo; echo; echo '--- Sweaving '$<': ------------------------------------'; echo;
>> 	$(SWEAVE) $<
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> I hope this will help
>>
>>
>>     > I am using the latest versions of emacs, ess, auctex, and R.
>>
>>     > Regards.
>>     > Raghu
>>
>>     
>>
>>
>>     > ________.emacs code_______________________________________
>>
>>     > (custom-set-variables
>>     > ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
>>     > ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>>     > ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>>     > ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>>     > '(LaTeX-command "latex -synctex=1")
>>     > '(TeX-PDF-mode t)
>>     > '(TeX-source-correlate-method (quote synctex))
>>     > '(TeX-source-correlate-mode t)
>>     > '(TeX-source-correlate-start-server t)
>>     > '(TeX-view-program-list (quote (("Okular" "okular -unique %o#src:%n%b"))))
>>     > '(TeX-view-program-selection (quote ((output-pdf "Okular") ((output-dvi
>>     > style-pstricks) "dvips and gv") (output-dvi "xdvi") (output-pdf "Evince")
>>     > (output-html "xdg-open"))))
>>     > '(ess-pdf-viewer-pref (quote ("okular"))) ;; "-reuse-instance" "unique"
>>     > '(cua-mode t nil (cua-base))
>>     > '(ess-swv-processor (quote knitr))
>>     > '(reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t)
>>     > '(show-paren-mode t))
>>     > (custom-set-faces
>>     > ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>>     > ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>>     > ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>>     > ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>>     > )
>>
>>     > ;; this is taken from
>>     > http://www.kevindemarco.com/2013/04/24/emacs-auctex-synctex-okular-on-ubuntu-12-04/
>>     > ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>>     > ;; Latex for Emacs
>>     > ;; 
>>     > ;; Dependencies: okular, texlive-full, auctex
>>     > ;;
>>     > ;; Okular setup: 
>>     > ;; 1.) Open Okular and go to...
>>     > ;; 2.) Settings -> Configure Okular -> Editor
>>     > ;; 3.) Set Editor to "Emacs client"
>>     > ;; 4.) Command should automatically set to: 
>>     > ;; emacsclient -a emacs --no-wait +%l %f
>>     > ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>>
>>     > ;; only start server for okular comms when in latex mode
>>     > (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'server-start)
>>     > (setq TeX-PDF-mode t) ;; use pdflatex instead of latex
>>
>>     > ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>>     > ;; Standard emacs/latex config
>>     > ;; http://emacswiki.org/emacs/AUCTeX
>>     > (setq TeX-auto-save t)
>>     > (setq TeX-parse-self t)
>>     > (setq-default TeX-master nil)
>>
>>
>>     > (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'visual-line-mode)
>>     > (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode)
>>     > (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'LaTeX-math-mode)
>>
>>     > ; enable auto-fill mode, nice for text
>>     > (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'auto-fill-mode)
>>     > (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex)
>>     > (setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t)
>>     > ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>>
>>     > ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>>     > ;; Enable synctex correlation
>>     > (setq TeX-source-correlate-method 'synctex)
>>     > ;; Enable synctex generation. Even though the command shows
>>     > ;; as "latex" pdflatex is actually called
>>
>>     > ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>>
>>     > ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>>     > ;; Use Okular as the pdf viewer. Build okular 
>>     > ;; command, so that Okular jumps to the current line 
>>     > ;; in the viewer.
>>     > (setq TeX-view-program-selection
>>     > '((output-pdf "PDF Viewer")))
>>     > (setq TeX-view-program-list
>>     > '(("PDF Viewer" "okular --unique %o#src:%n%b")))
>>     > ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>>
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