Bug 417461

Yes, I know that this bug is documented on 'man xdvi' under
a description of '-keep' flag.  Documenting a bug does not
convert it into a feature.

Reassigning to xdvik, it's now packaged separately.

Please can you try the new rawhide package of xdvik and let us know if this
problem still exists - we have bumped to a new upstream version now (newer than
the previous one from texlive).

It is sort of funny then you ask me if the problem still exists while
it is enough to open in xdvi any file which displays more than one
page and see that for yourself.

Yes, this highly annoying behaviour is still there.  As I mentioned
previously - it is even documented: "This flag is only honoured by
the up() and down() actions, not by up-or-previous() and down-or-next()".

I guess that another flag is needed, say 'unbrokenKeep', which keeps
a horizontal position across up-or-previous() and down-or-next().
An interesting thing is that xdvi used to work that way until somebody
made "improvements".

Output of rpm -qa | grep xdvik please.

OK, I have confirmed the bug with the latest build (22.84.13-6), and understand
what you're saying now. This build included your patch from bug #168124 which
seems to not work. 

I did a scratch build without that patch, but still the behavior you describe
exists. If you wanted to try that, you can pull from here:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=351818

As I say, as far as I can tell, it behaves exactly the same. So, we need to dig
a little deeper.

> Output of rpm -qa | grep xdvik please.
xdvi-22.84.12-9.fc9
There is no 'xvdik' package.

(In reply to comment #7)
> > Output of rpm -qa | grep xdvik please.
> xdvi-22.84.12-9.fc9
> There is no 'xvdik' package.

Yeah, there is - this is why I was asking. It's in rawhide, may not be on your
mirror yet tho. You can also pull from koji here:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=31690

(that's a build including your old patch).

> This build included your patch from bug #168124

That was from a while ago.  Apparently that code changed and
this does not help anymore.

Ah, I misunderstood.  I see now in koji, which is very reluctant
to respond, xdvik.  In today rawhide updates there was only
xdvi-22.84.12-9.fc9 as a subpackage of texlive-2007-9.fc9.

I will try to dig through sources when I will have a chance.

Hm, I tried to install packages listed in BuildRequires for xdvik.
So I did:
yum install --exclude='*.i?86' t1lib-devel Xaw3d-devel kpathsea-devel
That resulted in:
.....
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * development: download.fedora.redhat.com
,,,,
No package t1lib-devel available.            <---!!
No package kpathsea-devel available.         <---!!
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package Xaw3d-devel.x86_64 0:1.5E-10.1 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

'yum-builddep xdvik' for a change ends up with:
No such package(s): xdvik.src
or with:
No such package(s): xdvik-22.84.13-6.fc9.src
if you want to be more specific.  What gives?

Created attachment 292212 [details]
updated "keepflag" patch for xdvik

That turned out to be pretty trivial.  An old patch was for a code
hidden behind '#ifdef MOTIF ... #endif'.  A similar mod had to be done
on another branch as is clear that with current compilations MOTIF is
not defined.

An updated xdvik-22.84.13-keepflag.patch is attached.  It includes
also a proposed note for a manpage.  I am quite sure that the same
patch would work also for xdvi used in F7 and F8 distributions.

Thanks for looking at this Michal, very much appreciated - it was on my weekend
to do list, but hopefully I won't need to look at it now. 

I've just pushed a build with your new patch
(http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=358120) but the buildsystem
is going slow, and I desperately need sleep, and so will wait until tomorrow to
check if it has built ok and fixed the bug.

With xdvik-22.84.13-7.fc9 installed a page image does not jump around
anymore when "Spacebar" or "Backspace" keys are pressed.

When an opportunity present itself it would be nice to have that fixed
also for xdvi used with the current Fedora releases.

I applied the updated patch in F8/F7 tetex as well.

tetex-3.0-40.5.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update tetex'

tetex-3.0-40.5.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

tetex-3.0-44.8.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.