[OS X TeX] small trick on the command line

[Bernhard Barkow]

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Just an addition:
the way I got the alias to work in tcsh (after some trial and error) is

alias texopen open -a emacs '`kpsewhich \!^`'

in .tcshrc. Maybe some users not very experienced with the tcsh details 
might find that useful (like me, for example...).

Thanks for this great tip,
Bernhard

On 8. Feb 2005, at 21:16, Axel E.Retif wrote:

> On Feb 8, 2005, at 8:04 AM, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
>
>> This is just a very small trick I wanted to share: I have been 
>> mucking with lots of encodings and font descriptions lately, and I 
>> constantly needed to find and open files in the different 
>> texmf.something trees. Typing those long paths in the Terminal or 
>> navigating to these files in the Finder proved pretty irritating 
>> after a while. So I began to type
>>
>> open -a emacs `kpsewhich texnansi.enc`
>>
>> Which means: let kpsewhich look for the file in question; it will 
>> spit out the complete path, then the "open -a emacs" command will 
>> take this path as an argument (the two ` around the kpsewhich are 
>> "backticks," that's important). Of course, replace "emacs" with 
>> another application of your choice, or use "edit" to open the file in 
>> Textwrangler etc. If you want to speed up things, you could define an 
>> alias (if you're using tcsh) or function (bash or zsh) like so:
>>
>> texopen () { open -a emacs `kpsewhich $@`; }
>>
>> If you put this line into your .bashrc or .zshrc (and run "source 
>> .bashrc"), you'll have a command "texopen" that will take one or more 
>> filenames as an argument, locate them with kpsewhich and open them in 
>> emacs.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Thomas
>
> Thank you! As you say, to open in TextWrangler (2.0) is as easy as
>
> edit `kpsewhich txfonts.sty`
>
> (bbedit `kpsewhich txfonts.sty` for BBEdit)
>
> Thank you again
>
> Axel
>
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