[OS X Emacs] aquamacs 1.9 and skim

[Arthur Ogus]

Dear David,

Your doubts had already occurred to me, which is why I have been silent until now.
But indeed, all I do is bind C-c C-v to what is I think the correct jump-to-pdf entry.
I find auctex customization very difficult to understand, and instead just pieced this together
from so old code I had on hand.

I'm pretty rusty on emacs lisp, and have been involved in a big writing project do even dare look
at the 2.0 preview, so I don't think I can offer to help at this time.

Anyway, here is what i wrote (actually cut form something a bit bigger which allows one to choose
between Skim and TeXniscope).

Should I make it public or not?

 (setq TeX-output-view-style
      (quote (("^dvi$" "." "open -a TeXniscope %o")
	      ("^pdf$" "." 
"/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline %n %o %b"))))


Best,

Arthur Ogus
On Dec 11, 2009, at 7:45 PM, David Reitter wrote:

> On Dec 11, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Arthur Ogus wrote:
> 
>> Dear folks
>> 
>> Since some people are confused by this, I wonder if I should somehow post my own little snippet,
>> which binds C-c C-v to a command which opens Skim, in the correct place in the document.
>> Actually it's convenient to do this if you don't want to use the mouse.
> 
> I advise against reimplementing the machinery that is already there (and was painfully tested).
> Calling (TeX-command  "Jump To PDF" 'TeX-master-file) should work just fine, however, and rebinding C-c C-v is safe, of course.  (I guess that's what you wanted.)
> 
> There is better way to do this, though, via AUCTeX's customization.  Change `TeX-command-list'  to reassign the "View" entry to exactly what is shown for the "Jump to PDF" entry.  This is the intended way to customize this the way you want.
> 
> I think in Aquamacs 2.x we can change the behavior and perhaps create a SyncTeX/Skim minor mode (with menu entry) that will do the right thing and call Skim when the "View" command is executed.  The menu item would be grayed out (and the mode not functional) if Skim is not installed.  By default, the minor mode would be turned on.
> That's all pretty easy to do - would you be able to write a patch?
> 
> 
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