Hide .synctex files

Question

I use WinEdt 10.1 and Sumatrapdf. I find the inverse search extremely useful. However, the .synctex files are quite annoying to me because I work within a folder which contains up to a hundred latex files (and I arrange the files according to the time modified). In WinEdt, there is an option to put all the auxiliary files to a folder called "TeXAuX" which is very neat but somehow the .synctex file has to be in the same directory as the .tex file.

So my question is, is there a way (preferably by modifying the "compile" command within WinEdt's option) to change the attribute of the .synctex file to "hidden" immediately after compilation?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

There's no WinEdt macro that acts on the file attributes.

However we can tell WinEdt to use the attrib DOS command to achieve what you want.

These are the steps you have to follow:

1. Open the file %B\Exec\ExeCompilerPost.edt in WinEdt (%B is the directory where you've installed the program, something like C:\Program Files\WinEdt Team\WinEdt 10).

2. Show the "Options Interface" (Options -> Options Interface) and click on "Advanced Configuration":

   

3. Now, in the Options Interface toolbar, click on the button "Create and Open Local Copy":

   

4. A local copy of ExeCompilerPost.edt gets opened. In this file search for the following lines near the end of the file:

       IfFileExists("%O\%N.%!7",!"CopyFile('%O\%N.%!7','%P\%N.%!7',1);DeleteFile('%O\%N.%!7');");
       IfFileExists("%O\%N%$('PDF-SyncEx');",>
         !"CopyFile('%O\%N%$(|PDF-SyncEx|);','%P\%N%$(|PDF-SyncEx|);',1);DeleteFile('%O\%N%$(|PDF-SyncEx|);');");
     JMP(!"Post_Done");
   

5. Replace these lines with the following:

       IfFileExists("%O\%N.%!7",!"CopyFile('%O\%N.%!7','%P\%N.%!7',1);DeleteFile('%O\%N.%!7');");
       IfFileExists("%O\%N%$('PDF-SyncEx');",>
         !"CopyFile('%O\%N%$(|PDF-SyncEx|);','%P\%N%$(|PDF-SyncEx|);',1);DeleteFile('%O\%N%$(|PDF-SyncEx|);');");
       IfFileExists("%P\%N%$('PDF-SyncEx');",>
         !"WinExe('','cmd.exe /C attrib +h %N%$(|PDF-SyncEx|);','%P','',011100);");
     JMP(!"Post_Done");
   

6. Save the file and you're done.

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Now, every time you compile a file, the associated synctex file is saved as a hidden file.

Answer 2

You can use -output-directory="output" (right side is dir name) parameter, like

xelatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -output-directory="output" "something.tex"

so that your outupt will be placed in separate directory, but directory must exist, so that it can write in it. But I am not sure how it will work with inverse search.