[TxMt] Re: LaTeX bundle wont stop opening TeXShop

[René Schwaiger]

Hi Allan,

> On 18 Jan 2015, at 13:52 , Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org> wrote:
> 
> I see — you might have the external script issues sorted out by now, but another alternative (where we do not have to consider AppleScript’s string quoting rules embedded into a shell string) would be to use an environment variable, for example:
> 
>    import pipes
>    import subprocess
> 
>    path = "That's an \"environment\" variable!"
>    cmd = "PDF={} osascript -e 'tell app \"TextMate\" to display alert (system attribute \"PDF\")'".format(pipes.quote(path))
>    subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True)

thanks for the advice. With my current knowledge that is the solution I would have chosen to fix the quoting problem. The compiled version of the script seems to work too though. I will leave it like it is for now.

Kind regards,
  René