[Vim-latex-devel] PDF forward search (using SyncTex), and DDE

[Julien C. <jul...@gm...>]

Hi all

I am trying to tweak vim-latex' Tex_ForwardSearchLaTeX  so that it can
forward-search with SumatraPDF. I have 2 questions :

1. do you know how to obtain the line of the next synchronization
point set by synctex ? (synctex used to be the package pdfsync, but is
now included in pdflatex using command line arguments --synctex=1)
2. do you know a way to use DDE from a VIM script ? or is there no
other way than calling an external python script ? (which I am in the
way of coding, DDE in Python is very simple) -- in which case the
feature would *require* python to be set up.
2bis. If having to call a python script, what is the best way to do it
from compiler.vim ? I assume there is some standard way to do, as
outline.py is often called -- I can have a look.

Thanks for any info !

Update for the inverse-search with SumatraPDF, also based on
synctex/pdfsync: the -inverse-search option is persistent in
SumatraPDF, so a lazy way would be to call once and for all SumatraPDF
from the commadn line with the -inverse-search rightly set, and no
need to modify g:Tex_ViewRule_pdf, then.

Julien