[OS X Emacs] backwards search with aquamacs and Skim

[Arthur E. OGUS]

Thank you Peter!  I think this suggestion:  


> ou expand in the preference pane "emacsclient" to become "/Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient" – if that's the correct path.


has solved the problem!



> On Jun 5, 2023, at 1:05 AM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Am 05.06.2023 um 04:34 schrieb Arthur E. OGUS <ogus at math.berkeley.edu>:
>> 
>> export PATH=/usr/texbin:$PATH
>> 
>> 
>> Can you suggest how to change this?  (But  I don’t think this is the problem.)
>> 
>> The terminal command “which  emacsclient” returns nothing in both cases. 
> 
> I think Win tried to say this: Either you add /Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin, the assumed path to Aquamacs' emacsclient, to your PATH setting, or you expand in the preference pane "emacsclient" to become "/Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient" – if that's the correct path.
> 
> The first variant enables you to send files to Aquamacs for viewing or editing purposes. By setting an environment variable EDITOR to hold "emacsclient" or by invoking emacsclient.
> 
> 
> There can be another cause that your setup is failing. As far as I understand the way emacsclient works it is necessary to invoke in Emacs or Aquamacs a server that creates a socket in the file system by which means the server and emacsclient communicate. Here is the help page GNU Emacs displays (C-h f server-start RET):
> 
> 	server-start is an autoloaded interactive compiled Lisp function in
> 	‘server.el’.
> 	
> 	(server-start &optional LEAVE-DEAD INHIBIT-PROMPT)
> 	
> 	  Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 18.
> 	
> 	Allow this Emacs process to be a server for client processes.
> 	This starts a server communications subprocess through which client
> 	"editors" can send your editing commands to this Emacs job.
> 	To use the server, set up the program ‘emacsclient’ in the Emacs
> 	distribution as your standard "editor".
> 	
> 	Optional argument LEAVE-DEAD (interactively, a prefix arg) means just
> 	kill any existing server communications subprocess.
> 	
> 	If a server is already running, restart it.  If clients are
> 	running, ask the user for confirmation first, unless optional
> 	argument INHIBIT-PROMPT is non-nil.
> 	
> 	To force-start a server, do M-x server-force-delete and then
> 	M-x server-start.
> 	
> 	To check from a Lisp program whether a server is running, use
> 	the ‘server-process’ variable.
> 
> This *Help* page or buffer is quite handy since you can click on high-lighted items and then the value of the variable is displayed. And you can return to the previous page…
> 
> There also exists a buffer *Messages* which might be holding some messages from Emacs. They might explain why communication fails.
> 
> 
> BTW, "interactively, a prefix arg" is simply C-u followed by the proper function (or command).
> 
> --
> 
> Greetings
> 
>  Pete
> 
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> 
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