[4607] in Athena Bugs
xdvi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Mar 23 01:26:17 1990
From: kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 90 01:26:08 -0500
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Hey, here's a really silly one:
xdvi can not be used to preview files whose names begin with `#' !!
This is because xdvi accepts old-style geometry specs.
This is a problem because emacs' TeX-mode uses temporary files that
begin with `#'. I hit the problem trying to add a preview command to
TeX-mode. I have a workaround: my .emacs file now redefines the elisp
function (make-temp-name...) to prepend `temp' to the filename! This is
very silly.
Just as you can type
rm - -r
to remove a file called "-r", you should be able to say
xdvi # #suchandsuch
Thanks!
-Ken
