Am 18.04.2020 um 15:58 schrieb Kornel Benko <[email protected]>: > > Am Sat, 18 Apr 2020 11:47:18 +0200 > schrieb Stephan Witt <[email protected]>: > >> Am 18.04.2020 um 08:50 schrieb Kornel Benko <[email protected]>: >>> >>> commit 0135682fca9bcdbf4f355aa6ef4e6f78b4e8b49b >>> Author: Kornel Benko <[email protected]> >>> Date: Sat Apr 18 09:06:56 2020 +0200 >>> >>> Amend(1) 689f26d2: Add default path to server pipe (cmake build) >>> >>> Added handling for cygwin and win32 >>> MacOSX is unchanged, Stephan could you look at it? >> >> Actually it was working on Mac w/o problem before. What should I look at? >> What do you expect to happen and what shouldn’t happen? >> >> Stephan >> > > Yes, I expect it was working. At least for the default userdir. > But what happens if you use different directory? > $ lyx -userdir my_belowed_lyx_userdir
There is no reason to do so on a Mac. And if one want to use that it would be easy to use the appropriate serverpipe value there. > Could we, instead of > \serverpipe "~/Library/Application Support/LyX@version_suffix@/.lyxpipe" > use > \serverpipe "$$User/.lyxpipe" > in development/MacOSX/lyxrc.dist.in? Yes, we could. But it doesn’t change anything, AFAICS. Furthermore I have some problems with it: 1. I’d name the variable UserDir to match the meaning of it. 2. The aim of the pipe is to tell LyX something. So it should be easy to guess it’s location for other programs. It shouldn't have a dynamic and unpredictable location. The use case of the pipe on a Mac is to communicate with the PDF viewer Skim. The viewer has a builtin default to send a message to LyX. This is to look for the script lyxeditor at the well known location /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS and run it with appropriate parameters. This script scans the user preferences for the serverpipe and uses a sensible fallback if it is not found. Your proposal doesn’t improve the situation. The problematic part is the assumption of Skim where LyX is located. Stephan -- lyx-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
