On Dec 2, 2004, at 21:18, David Wooten wrote:
Any way to make a Command which can work with the $TM_FILEPATH variable -- except with a .pdf extension? This is good really only for opening the .pdf file in e.g. TeXniscope for the first time. …or another method?
If you know the extension of the existing file, e.g. .tex, you can use bash's ability to substitute strings, e.g.: open "${TM_FILEPATH/%.tex/.pdf}"
This replaces a potential trailing '.tex' string with '.pdf' before inserting the value of the variable.
Otherwise you can do general substitutions with shell command interpolation and e.g. perl: open "`echo $TM_FILEPATH|perl -pe 's/.[^.]+$/.pdf/'`"
[tooltip] seems to appear with the top left corner at the cursor -- which often leaves the bulk of the window off the screen.
I'll try to improve this. Also, I could make it so that the window only opens if there is output, but then there probably need to be some other feedback to when the command completes -- personally I like audio feedback ;) but this can already be made w/o me having to do any work. Another alternative is to allow commands to change the text in the status bar.