On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 10:11:38PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > It would be nice if users did not have to configure forward search > (although they should have the option to do so if they prefer). I see > two possibilities: > > (1) Can configure.py do this easily, assuming that the PDF viewer that > is automatically set by configure.py is the one that will be used? I > think it is better to make a guess that is probably accurate 75% of the > time than to not guess at all. > > (2) We can move the settings from > Tools > Preferences > Output > General > to > Tools > Preferences > File Handling > File Format. > > Option (2) seems intuitive to me because the forward search command > should depend on the viewer of the file format. If there are different > viewers for different formats, then the forward search command would > automatically adapt because there would be a different forward search > command for each format. > > Any thoughts? > > Note that I'm not necessarily interested in working on this now myself. > Since I am new to forward search, I'm trying to think through a few > issues with a fresh perspective before I set up things that work for me > and forget what is intuitive to new users.
Bump. Scott
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