[OS X TeX] emacs and Applescript

[Joseph C. Slater]

On Dec 18, 2004, at 5:09 PM, Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> Maybe I should rephrase my questions. Some people asked me, if 
> Flashmode would also work with emacs/TeXniscope. When I started 
> looking into the problem these hurdles emerged: getting
>
> - the path of the open file and

Could this be gotten instead from TeXniscope?

> - the information, if the file contains unsaved modifications.
>
I hope folks from the mac-emacs list are reading this. I've done some 
digging and come up almost empty. I did get this. Emacs occasionally  
(every few minutes or so) saves the current buffer in #filename# 
(adding # on each end of the filename). That file could be compiled 
based on modification date changing.

Joe

> If someone can tell me, in sufficient detail, how these two pieces of 
> information could be extracted from emacs by an Applescript, I am 
> willing to pursue this point further.
>
> Claus
>
> On Dec 18, 2004, at 22:57, Gilbert Harman wrote:
>
>> In current emacs there is the function "do-applescript".  Does that 
>> help?
>>
>>  Gil
>>
>> do-applescript is a built-in function in `C source code'.
>> (do-applescript script)
>>
>> Compile and execute AppleScript script and retrieve and return the 
>> result.
>> If compilation and execution are successful, the resulting script
>> value is returned as a string.  Otherwise the function aborts and
>> displays the error message returned by the AppleScript scripting
>> component.
>>
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