The road to dropping xdvik

[Jonathan Underwood]

2010/1/27 Till Maas <opensource at till.name>:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:04:49PM +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>
>> However, it's not clear to me if okular and evince-dvi provide
>> equivalent functionality that we're yet in a position to drop xdvik.
>> Comments? If you use xdvik because other viewers don't give some
>> particular functionality, it would be helpful if you stated what that
>> functionality is.
>
> I do not know how good the support for this is nowadays in okular, but
> xdvi supports to open a tex editor for the source of the currently
> viewed area. Afaik okular should support it, too, but maybe only for
> pdf. And the last time I tried to use it, I gave up due to lack of
> documentation.
>

Yes - looks like that should now work though:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205084

Haven't personally tried.

Evince is also supposed to have similar functionality (there was a
patch posted to the mailing lists 6 months ago). I'll put this
requirement down as something needed before we drop xdvik.

Thanks.