Re: LaTeX export: Keep point position in TeX file

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

Michael Bach <phaebz@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello everyone,
>
> The way I am now doing LaTeX export is that I have the exported tex
> buffer below the org buffer.  When I do an export via `C-c C-e l' the
> .tex buffer gets updated, but point jumps to beginning of buffer instead
> of staying where it was.  (How) Can I changed that so point stays near
> where it was before I exported again?
>
> Best Regards,
> Michael

I think this behaviour arises because the exporter exports to a buffer
which it first empties.  So the behaviour you see is very different from
when Emacs "reverts" a buffer when the file changes out from under it.

If so, I suggest you could achieve what you want by using the
org-export-* hooks to, for instance, save current position before export
and then jump to that position after export?  Maybe
org-export-first-hook and org-export-latex-final-hook could be used?

Untried and obviously untested!  And likely beyond my elisp capabilities
so I'd be very keen on seeing a solution.  This behaviour has also
bothered me (well, very minor irritation) for a long time as I often
export to latex when debugging the export to PDF.

HTH,
eric

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