I'm using AucTeX on windows with the SumatraPDF viewer and noticed a problem with forward search. I'm editing a file whose name contains spaces and the view command AucTeX generates is:
SumatraPDF -reuse-instance -forward-search file name.tex 426 "file name.pdf" This confuses SumatraPDF (I think it thinks the file is "file", the line number is "name.tex" and then additionally tries to open a file named "426"). With quotes around "file name.tex" it works correctly: SumatraPDF -reuse-instance -forward-search "file name.tex" 426 "file name.pdf" I think that maybe the %b placeholder, which expands to a file name relative to the master file's directory, should always be surrounded in quotes. (I'm not sure that's actually the best fix for this.) So, as a workaround, I've added this to my configuration: (setq TeX-expand-list '(("%b" (lambda () (format "\"%s\"" (TeX-current-file-name-master-relative)))))) Emacs : GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2017-09-26 Package: 12.1.1 current state: ============== (setq AUCTeX-date "2018-03-20" window-system 'w32 LaTeX-version "2e" TeX-style-path '("~/.emacs.d/auctex" "c:/Users/Omar/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-12.1.1/style" "c:/Users/Omar/.emacs.d/auctex/auto" "c:/Users/Omar/.emacs.d/auctex/style" "auto" "style") TeX-auto-save nil TeX-parse-self nil TeX-master t TeX-command-list '(("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) %(file-line-error) %(extraopts) %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (plain-tex-mode ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode) :help "Run plain TeX") (#("LaTeX" 0 1 (idx 0)) "%`%l%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (latex-mode doctex-mode) :help "Run LaTeX") ("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %(extraopts) %t" TeX-run-compile nil (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with Info output") ("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo %(extraopts) --html %t" TeX-run-compile nil (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with HTML output") ("AmSTeX" "amstex %(PDFout) %(extraopts) %`%S%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (ams-tex-mode) :help "Run AMSTeX") ("ConTeXt" "%(cntxcom) --once --texutil %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt once") ("ConTeXt Full" "%(cntxcom) %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt until completion") (#("BibTeX" 0 1 (idx 1)) "bibtex %s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil t :help "Run BibTeX") (#("Biber" 0 1 (idx 2)) "biber %s" TeX-run-Biber nil t :help "Run Biber") (#("View" 0 1 (idx 3)) "%V" TeX-run-discard-or-function t t :help "Run Viewer") (#("Print" 0 1 (idx 4)) "%p" TeX-run-command t t :help "Print the file") (#("Queue" 0 1 (idx 5)) "%q" TeX-run-background nil t :help "View the printer queue" :visible TeX-queue-command) (#("File" 0 1 (idx 6)) "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-dvips t t :help "Generate PostScript file") (#("Dvips" 0 1 (idx 7)) "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-dvips nil t :help "Convert DVI file to PostScript") (#("Dvipdfmx" 0 1 (idx 8)) "dvipdfmx %d" TeX-run-dvipdfmx nil t :help "Convert DVI file to PDF with dvipdfmx") (#("Ps2pdf" 0 1 (idx 9)) "ps2pdf %f" TeX-run-ps2pdf nil t :help "Convert PostScript file to PDF") (#("Glossaries" 0 1 (idx 10)) "makeglossaries %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help "Run makeglossaries to create glossary file") (#("Index" 0 1 (idx 11)) "makeindex %s" TeX-run-index nil t :help "Run makeindex to create index file") (#("upMendex" 0 1 (idx 12)) "upmendex %s" TeX-run-index t t :help "Run upmendex to create index file") (#("Xindy" 0 1 (idx 13)) "texindy %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help "Run xindy to create index file") (#("Check" 0 1 (idx 14)) "lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode) :help "Check LaTeX file for correctness") (#("ChkTeX" 0 1 (idx 15)) "chktex -v6 %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode) :help "Check LaTeX file for common mistakes") (#("Spell" 0 1 (idx 16)) "(TeX-ispell-document \"\")" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Spell-check the document") (#("Clean" 0 1 (idx 17)) "TeX-clean" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Delete generated intermediate files") (#("Clean All" 0 1 (idx 18)) "(TeX-clean t)" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Delete generated intermediate and output files") (#("Other" 0 1 (idx 19)) "" TeX-run-command t t :help "Run an arbitrary command") ) ) _______________________________________________ bug-auctex mailing list bug-auctex@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-auctex