3 December 2017 at 16:32, Mosè Giordano <m...@gnu.org> wrote: > 2017-12-03 10:26 GMT+01:00 Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org>: > >> If you are working with many documents at the same time (say 3-4 or > >> even more) switching between Emacs and the wanted document can be > >> really annoying, using C-c C-v brings to focus the right instance of > >> the viewer. This is what Evince does and is much more convenient. > > > > > > I agree, but this is a problem to solve with the window manager, not the > > application behaviour. > > I don't see how it's a problem of the windows manager. I happen to > have several programs open at the same time and often switch between > them. For example, I'm using the terminal, than switch to Emacs and > want to see the output document. The next window that can be reached > by ALT + TAB is the terminal, not Okular, how could the window manager > guess I want to switch directly to the document viewer? >
I suggest that there are two different things going on here: 1. Should an application be run single-instance, should it raise an existing instance if there is one for the same document, or should it always start a new one? This is a window management problem: it should be configured in the window manager. The user might prefer different rules for different apps: for example, one might be more likely to want multiple windows showing the same document in an editor than in a viewer. 2. In some cases (for example, going back and forth between LaTeX editor and PDF preview) a more specialised protocol is used. (However, my bug report was not about this case, it was simply about launching a viewer for the current file.) In this case, the behaviour should depend on the protocol (but again, should work the same for different viewers). > I missed to stress one important point of C-c C-v There seems to be some confusion here: you brought up C-c C-v; I didn't mention it. I was just using the plain "View" command from the C-c C-c menu. (I guess I should investigate forward search again, though, it's obviously useful.)
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