I am working on a plugin that creates an Item Analysis report as a LaTeX file. I think eventually I will add a PDF version that will compile and open the resulting PDF file. But I want to leave open the option that the user might want to edit the LaTeX file before compiling on their own.

The trouble I'm having is that in the Export panel in the AMC GUI, I have "open the file" selected as the after export action, but nothing happens after exporting to LaTeX.

Digging into AMC-gui.pl, I think the issue is centered around this block:

if($config->get('after_export') eq 'file') {
      commande_parallele($config->get($type.'_viewer'),$output)
        if($config->get($type.'_viewer'));
    } elsif($config->get('after_export') eq 'dir') {
      view_dir($shortcuts->absolu('%PROJET/exports/'));
    }

I assume that $type is tex, although I haven't confirmed that. If so, this code looks for a preference tex_viewer, and since one doesn't exist, stops. But there is a preference related to LaTeX; it's tex_editor. I'd love to harness that preference in this setting.

Is it possible to set a preference tex_viewer equal to tex_editor, perhaps in the options_from_config subroutine of the AMC::Export::register child class? I've been reading through AMC::Config.pm and can't quite grok how to do that.