Geoff,
How do you tell a running version of xdvi to change its position/page from the shell? If it can be done from the shell I'll look at adding it. If xdvi is to be an officially supported viewer then its going to take me a bit of time to make it work with the rest of the bundle options in texMate.py. All of the viewing commands assumed that pdf was the format that was going to be viewed so its not a trivial change. You are the first person to request support for xdvi. I'm curious if others would want xdvi supported as well.
If it is a short shell script then it really would be very easy for you to add your own bundle command.
type ctrl-opt-cmd-b to bring up the bundle editor You should see a bundle with your own name, or you can add the command to the latex bundle. click add new command in the lower left corner. Give your new command a name: dvisync Save: Nothing Command(s) Whatever shell script tells xdvi to update itself. The two variables you may want are: TM_LINE_NUMBER and TM_FILEPATH or TM_FILENAME Input: None Output: discard key equivalent: your choice Scope Selector: text.tex.latex
Brad
Close the bundle editor, and you've made your first TextMate command. On Feb 6, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Geoff Vallis wrote:
Replying to Brad and Niels in one go:
On Feb 6, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
The "Show in PDF Viewer"-command says "texMate.py sync 1" (you can see that in the Bundle Editor) and locate tells me that texMate.py is located in "/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/ Latex.tmbundle/Support/bin/texMate.py"
and a search in TextMate in that file says that the stuff you are searching for starts propably at line 109…
On Feb 6, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Brad Miller wrote:
Brad,
That's too bad if so, and seems a bit odd, to me at least. After all, an applescript can call a shell script, which could be used to call xdvi, presuming that the parameters like line number and file name could be passed on to the shell script. And I thought that Textmate could in any case invoke shell commands directly, which is all one would need along with the file name and line number.
I am presumably missing something!
You are probably right. I didn't think about it very carefully, and I don't really know anything about xdvi anymore as I've been very happily using pdf for several years now.
I would presume that if it can all be done in a shell script then using the TM_ variables would give you enough info to put together a script. In fact this script could simply be the body of a TextMate bundle command.
Brad
Thanks to both of you. Looking at texMate.py, it seems that in order to forward sync, TextMate calls the scripts that are provided by the PDF viewers, such as forward-search.sh in TeXniscope. On the face of it, it seems that one might be able to substitute a call to xdvi for one of these scripts, as the functionality and calling parameters are very similar. I guess I'll give it a shot -- unless someone who actually knows what they are doing wants to do it? I suspect it is a piece of cake in that case, and I'd be happy to provide any knowledge of xdvi that might be needed. (Unfortunately, I barely know what a 'bundle' is...)
Geoff
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