[OS X TeX] BBEdit/Skim synchronization is not working

Richard Seguin riseguin at earthlink.net
Sun Oct 4 18:09:33 EDT 2015


> On Oct 4, 2015, at 3:58 PM, Michael Sharpe <msharpe at ucsd.edu> wrote:
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>> On Oct 4, 2015, at 11:28 AM, Richard Seguin <riseguin at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> Well this is frustrating. I’ve even installed a fresh version of Skim, and that doesn’t work. What I haven’t tried is trashing Skim’s preferences, because I can’t even locate Skim’s preferences via the finder. And other then that, I’m running out of ways of diagnosing the problem.
>> 
>> Richard Séguin
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>>> On Oct 4, 2015, at 12:37 PM, John Rawnsley <J.Rawnsley at warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>> Yes I was watching the Rugby World Cup and not concentrating :). Syncing shift-command-click Skim->BBEdit works for me.
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>>> On 4 Oct 2015, at 18:29, Richard Seguin <riseguin at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>>> When you sync Skim —> BBEdit, you’re using the usual shift-command-click method? That’s not what’s working here, and I’m not aware of any other method of doing it. I can use Sneep’s script to sync BBEdit —> Skim from the script menu, and that does work. Again, shift-command-click works for TextWrangler, but does not work for BBEdit.
>>>> 
>>>> Richard
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>>>>> On Oct 4, 2015, at 12:12 PM, John Rawnsley <J.Rawnsley at warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>>>> To complicate the issue :), I just checked in 10.11 on my MacBook Air that BBEdit 11.1.3 and Skim 1.4.14 will synchronise in both directions. I don’t have a keystroke assigned to synching BBEdit->Skim so I am placing the cursor in the source text then selecting the AppleScript from the BBEdit AppleScript menu.
>>>>> 
>>>>> You may have conflicting keystrokes defined if it works in TextWrangler and not in BBEdit.
>>>>> 
>>>>> John
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>>>>> On 4 Oct 2015, at 17:58, riseguin at earthlink.net wrote:
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>>>>>> I just checked, and found that synchronization still works with the latest TextWrangler, the free version of BBEdit. I checked versions of BBEdit back to 11.0.3, and none of them work, although 11.0.3 certainly worked previously. So, this is a very odd situation. I’ve been in contact with Bare Bones Software, and just sent them my latest observations. I haven’t yet contacted the Skim people, I suppose because the last time I did it was kind of a painful process.
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> On the one machine that I didn't revert to Yosemite, I found that syncing from Skim to BBEdit did not work (activated by Shift-Command Click) until I reinstalled the BBEdit Command Line tools.
> 
> Michael


Michael,

That’s it, and it works now! The El Capitan install must have removed the tools that were there. It’s still interesting that TextWrangler was not affected.

Richard Séguin


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