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AUCTeX View command omits hyphens

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From: Tommi Rimpiläinen <rimpilaeinen <at> yahoo.co.uk>
To: "bug-auctex <at> gnu.org" <bug-auctex <at> gnu.org>
Subject: AUCTeX View command omits hyphens
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:26:15 +0000 (UTC)

Dear AUCTeX development team,

I'm trying to use the forward and backward search feature of AUCTeX using Synctex and Okular. The search feature seems to work, at least into the editor-to-viewer direction. However, I always need to manually add hyphens into the file name that the prompt suggests so that file names that include white space are not interpreted as multiple input files. I would prefer if the View command would add the hyphens automatically, so that I would not need to insert them by hand every time. Please let me know if there is an easy way to fix this issue. Also, you might consider adding the hyphenated file names to the future versions of the View command of AUCTeX.

Thank you for all the hard work that you have done so far. AUCTeX is by far my preferred tool for editing LaTeX documents. 

Regards,
-Tommi

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Tommi Rimpiläinen

Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: Bug reporting list for AUCTeX <bug-auctex <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 42042 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42042: AUCTeX View command omits hyphens
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 21:43:29 +0200

Hi Tommi,

> I'm trying to use the forward and backward search feature of AUCTeX
> using Synctex and Okular.  The search feature seems to work, at least
> into the editor-to-viewer direction.  However, I always need to
> manually add hyphens into the file name that the prompt suggests so
> that file names that include white space are not interpreted as
> multiple input files.  I would prefer if the View command would add
> the hyphens automatically, so that I would not need to insert them by
> hand every time.

I just tested using the current Git master and got as view command
suggestion

  okular --unique Test\ mit\ Leerzeichen.pdf#src:5"/home/horn/tmp/Test mit Leerzeichen.tex"

so the output filename "Test mit Leerzeichen.pdf" has been properly
quoted for my shell to interpret.  Essentially, we are basically just
using the standard Emacs function `shell-quote-argument' which should
add the right quoting for at least the common shells.

Which operating system and shell are you using?  And what does the
following evaluate to?

  (shell-quote-argument "Test with spaces.tex") <-- C-x C-e here!

Bye,
Tassilo

PS: When writing bug reports using M-x TeX-submit-bug-report RET, please
don't erase the automatically inserted OS/Emacs/config overview.

Message #14 received at 42042 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 42042 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42042: AUCTeX View command omits hyphens
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:43:12 +0100

Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Tommi,
>
>> I'm trying to use the forward and backward search feature of AUCTeX
>> using Synctex and Okular.  The search feature seems to work, at least
>> into the editor-to-viewer direction.  However, I always need to
>> manually add hyphens into the file name that the prompt suggests so
>> that file names that include white space are not interpreted as
>> multiple input files.  I would prefer if the View command would add
>> the hyphens automatically, so that I would not need to insert them by
>> hand every time.
>
> I just tested using the current Git master and got as view command
> suggestion
>
>   okular --unique Test\ mit\ Leerzeichen.pdf#src:5"/home/horn/tmp/Test mit Leerzeichen.tex"
>
> so the output filename "Test mit Leerzeichen.pdf" has been properly
> quoted for my shell to interpret.  Essentially, we are basically just
> using the standard Emacs function `shell-quote-argument' which should
> add the right quoting for at least the common shells.
>
> Which operating system and shell are you using?  And what does the
> following evaluate to?
>
>   (shell-quote-argument "Test with spaces.tex") <-- C-x C-e here!
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
> PS: When writing bug reports using M-x TeX-submit-bug-report RET, please
> don't erase the automatically inserted OS/Emacs/config overview.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

No further comments, therefore I'm closing this report.

Best, Arash

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