[OS X TeX] customizing latex-suite

[Jonathan Kew]

On 7 Sep 2008, at 8:09 PM, Doris Wagner wrote:

>> I configured my .vimrc like this (I want to use preview, because I  
>> don't want to use x11, but only the >>normal<< terminal):
>
> let g:Tex_DefaultTargetFormat = 'pdf'
> let g:Tex_ViewRule_pdf ="/Applications/Preview.app"
>
> what happens now is that a pdf is produced, but Preview does not  
> start from within vim and open the file.
> I also tried with the alternative line
>
> let g:Tex_ViewRule_pdf = 'Preview'
>
> but also there nothing happended.
>
> so what do I have to do???


Just guessing here, but maybe vim needs the path to the actual binary,  
rather than the application package; that would be

   let g:Tex_ViewRule_pdf = '/Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/ 
Preview'

Alternatively, rather than calling Preview directly, you could try the  
"open" command, which is the usual way to open arbitrary files and  
apps from the command line:

   let g:Tex_ViewRule_pdf = 'open -a Preview'

HTH,

JK