Latex-workshop: [Feature Request] Forward synctex with Ctrl+LeftClick

[Astrantia]

Reverse synctex currently supports this. What about forward synctex?

[James-Yu]

Not possible since vscode does not provide related API.

[GNHua]

Now one needs to right click and selects SyncTex from cursor to go from tex file to pdf file.
Is there any way to define a shortcut or hotkey for that?

[carstenhag]

Can we request this upstream? I am also looking for this feature.

Ctrl/Command-Click on .tex source to get forward synctex.

[carstenhag]

@GNHua I'm pretty sure you can define a hot-key to run latex-workshop.synctex, it's probably that command.

https://github.com/James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop/blob/master/package.json#L37

[carstenhag]

@James-Yu Could this perhaps be implemented with this?

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/editingevolved#_go-to-definition

[James-Yu]

@carstenhag The extension already has go-to-definition on labels. Re-assigning it to synctex will 1) break the feature 2) make it troublesome for systems without synctex. An upstream request is absolutely good, yet I myself doubt if the core team would adopt it.

[aterenin]

I'm also looking for this feature, which I think would prove extremely popular. I would gladly give up the ability to go-to-definition on labels to have working forward synctex via click. Perhaps this could be considered as an option that the user needs to enable?

Related: the right-click option for synctex appears to have been removed since the time this issue was created.

Also related: there's an upstream VS Code issue for customizing mouse click keybindings at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/3130.

[jlelong]

To get the right click menu back, set latex-workshop.showContextMenu: true.
Forward synctex is also accessible via a keybinding alt+cltr+j.