[Back from changing tires.  It's good to get one's hands dirty once in
a while.  If somebody wants to spend me a garage with a nice oldtimer
to work on, I won't say no. (c:]

* David Kastrup (2005-11-20) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Anyway, it works, i.e. an xdvi window is displayed, if
>> `process-connection-type' is bound to nil when `start-process' is
>> being called:
>>
>> (let ((process-connection-type nil))
>>   (start-process "texdoc-proc" (current-buffer) "texdoc" "float"))
>
> Hmmm.  Makes one think about our viewer starting stuff.  We had the
> problem that we could not figure out whether starting the viewer
> failed.

You mean that the user gets no feedback of it failed?  I don't recall
any discussion about that.  Maybe this was before my time.

The viewer is called with `TeX-run-discard' which uses `(call-process
blah blah 0 blah blah blah)' and yes, this discards all output from
the process.

-- 
Ralf



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