[TxMt] TextMate and TeXniscope - Fails opening pdf

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Mar 12, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote:

> figure out why it wouldn't compile a few times .. sometimes the  
> error messages aren't so handy ;-)
>
I know what you mean :)
Well, the error messages are a bit better on the command line  
actually. Textmate seems to chop off some of the key lines.
> Second .. maybe more on topic .. is there any way we could use  
> TeXShop as the LaTeX previewer ... since I'm pretty sure it deals  
> w/ pdfsync, might be something to look into.

You can easily use TeXShop as the previewer, it's as easy as setting  
the TM_LATEX_VIEWER variable to it. On the other hand, though TeXShop  
does an admirable job with syncing among its own windows, it doesn't  
seem to have the infrastructure to support an outside editor in that  
manner. It has no interface that I can see for specifying to it what  
command to execute and how to pass the parameters of file and line  
etc. Maybe someone with more knowledge of TeXShop can help us here.
> I did a quick search in the archive and found someone talking about  
> just using the Tiger pdfsearch instead of pdfsync -- not sure  
> exactly if that superscedes pdfsync in that I like the ctrl-cmd- 
> shift-o shortcut to jump to the current place from your textmate  
> doc to the TeXniscope pdf .. maybe it does, I have no idea.
>
I personally don't see much reason in using Tiger pdfsearch when we  
have a platform independent solution, and I don't see what more it  
would get us, or how we would go about using it. The problem here how  
to tell TeXShop what editor to call back.
> Otherwise, the no-space-document-path + TeXniscope is working for  
> me in the meanwhile, though I like the fact that TeXShop is universal.
>
> cheers,
> -steve

Haris