[Tex/LaTex] How to implement forward-inverse-search with TeXStudio and Evince in Ubuntu

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I am using Ubuntu 12.04 with TexStudio and Evince 3.4.0 installed.

Can I use them to realize forward-inverse-search between my tex source code and the pdf file? How?

I tried the method described here, but it doesn't work for me. Maybe this is because I don't know how to edit their code.

I tried texstudio %f -line %l & and texstudio %.pdf -line %l & in modifying the evince code provided in the line above.

Hopefully there will be a perfect solution.

PS: With the help of Daleif, I find out that the internal pdf-viewer of TeXStudio works perfectly on forward-inverse-search using the default control-click settings. I would leave this post open, in case anyone is still more interested in using the external Evince pdf reader. I will help verify the validity of solutions. Thanks.

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Texmaker comes with a build in PDF previewer that supports synctex. If I remember correctly, it is "embedded" by default. That is, editor and previewer is a part of the same bigger window. This might not be useful if the screen is small, say on a small laptop. Editor and previewer can be separated into two separate Windows via the Texmaker configuration (just remove the tick mark at "embedded" and restart Texmaker)

Texmakers cousin Texstudio made this even easier: there the separation is a button on the previewer.

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pdflatex.exe -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode C cè.tex

while the corresponding command line in WinEdt is

pdflatex.exe -synctex=-1 -interaction=errorstopmode "C cè.tex"

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This procedure will set up Emacs, AUCTeX, and the Okular viewer to handle integrated forward and inverse search. (These instructions were tested on a Debian system)

Install Emacs. To install Emacs, open up the terminal and type the command:
```
sudo apt-get install emacs
```
Install AUCTeX.

Within Emacs, run M-x package install RET auctex RET.

To test for a successful installation, just open up a .tex file Emacs with and you will see new menus concerning LaTeX.
Install Okular.
```
sudo apt-get install okular
```
If not already done, open a tex file with emacs.
In the LaTeX menu, go to "Customize AUCTeX" and click on "Extend this menu".
Then go again to LaTeX, "Customize AUCTeX", go to the "Tex Command" submenu and click on the included "Tex command" item.
From within Emacs, run
```
M-x customize-group RET TeX-command RET
```
You are now in the "Tex command group" configuration buffer. Scroll down until you reach "Tex Pdf Mode". Its value is off (nil); click on the "Toggle" button to activate this mode. Click on the "State" button and select "Save for Future Sessions". AUCTeX will now compile your TeX file using pdflatex.

You should see something like this:

For the "Save for Future Sessions", the button with the green down arrow can also be selected. When this is done, your .emacs will be updated accordingly.
Still in the "Tex command group" configuration buffer, scroll all the way down and click on the special item called "Tex View". In the "Tex view group" buffer, you have two things to do:
- activate the correlate mode between the PDF and the TeX file, and
- declare a PDF viewer which can read these correlations.
To activate the correlate mode:
1. item "Tex Source Correlate Method", click on the "Value Menu" button and select "synctex" and save for future sessions,
2. item "Tex Source Correlate Start Server", select "Always" and save,
3. item "Tex Source Correlate Mode", toggle it on and save.
To set Okular as the default PDF viewer:
1. (NOTE: this is necessary only if you are using AUCTeX 11.87 or lower, in which case you really should upgrade the package to a more recent version) item Tex View Program List then click INS
  - name: Okular
  - choice: Command
  - command: okular --unique %o#src:%n%b
2. item Tex View Program Selection then click INS
  - choice: Single predicate
  - single predicate: output-pdf
  - viewer: Okular
    
    If you just added Okular to the Tex View Program List, this choice might not appear. Restart Emacs or Set for Current Session to have it show up.
Set and save both for future sessions.
To configure Okular: in the Okular window, go to the "Settings" menu, item "Configure Okular", "Editor", select Emacs client.
To use Forward search from Emacs to Okular, just hit C-c C-v or click on the glasses button of the tool-bar to call the viewer. Okular will center its display on the intended line of the pdf.
To use Inverse search from Okular to Emacs, make sure that the Browse Tool (in the Tools menu of Okular) is enabled; then just hit Shift+Left mouse click on the pdf. Emacs will come up and position the cursor at the intended line of the TeX source.

As a sidenote, AUCTeX can also jump-to errors generated in the log file with a C-c `. If this keystroke throws an error, see Uninformative error message when using AUCTeX for an Emacs-based (i.e. cross-platform, works with the major distributions) solution.

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