[carbon-emacs:182] Re: [OS X TeX] Re: PDFViewer

[Roussanka Loukanova]

Yes, I've tied the two lines and PDFView works the same way as without 
them :) But I'm puzzled: I see no difference, but there should be some.

Roussanka

On Thu, 17 May 2007, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:

> On 5/17/07, Kasper Daniel Hansen <kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Using do-applescript seems like a great idea. I have tried out the
>> following
>>
>> (defun raise-emacs-on-aqua()
>>   (do-applescript "tell application \"Emacs\" to activate"))
>>
>> Just replace these two lines with the existing three lines starting with
>> (defun raise-emacs...
>>
>> It may take a little while the first time you execute the command, at
>> least it did it for me.
>
>
> A little further reflection tells me that this is because the Latex file was
> not loaded. So it really should not matter.
>
>
>
> Kasper
>>
>>
>> On 5/17/07, Roussanka Loukanova <rloukano at stp.lingfil.uu.se> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Roussanka Loukanova wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 17 May 2007, David Reitter wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 16 May 2007, at 22:59, Roussanka Loukanova wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (defun raise-emacs-on-aqua()
>>>>>>    (shell-command "osascript -e 'tell application \"Emacs\" to
>>>>>> activate' &"))
>>>>>>
>>>>>> opens up an *Async Shell..." and adds robustness. I find the Async
>>>>>> Shell
>>>>>
>>>>> Does Carbon Emacs not have the `do-applescript' function?
>>>>> I don't quite see why one need to ask the shell to ask osascript to
>>>>> execute a script when you can execute the script directly. That
>>>>> should address the Async buffer business.
>>>>
>>>> If somebody could tell how, it would be good, because it creates
>>> problems
>>>> at least for those of us who've tried to use pdfview from Carbon
>>> Emacs. (I
>>>> myself do not know these script languages.)
>>>
>>> I took off the suspicious shell-command, and left in .emacs this:
>>>
>>> (server-start)
>>>
>>> + the code for forward search.
>>>
>>> It seems working, but I do not know the full capacity of PDFView. For
>>> ex.: When typesetting in emacs by modifying a location, which is not on
>>> the currently displayed pdf page, the update of the pdf happens, but
>>> PDFView doesn't jump to the corresponding pdf page. I do not know if
>>> this
>>> is implemented in PDFView or not. Indeed, PDFView takes me to the proper
>>> page of the pdf, if I issue C-c C-c to invoke explicitly the View
>>> command.
>>>
>>> Before that, I'd tried substituting do-applescript for osascript:
>>>
>>> - with the ampersand it didn't pdfview and/or pdfsync didn't work;
>>> - without the ampersand, I get:
>>>
>>> /bin/bash: line 1: do-applescript: command not found
>>>
>>> Roussanka

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