On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 25, 2010, at 20:59, Patrik Jonsson wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Patrik Jonsson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> In any case, it was easy to patch skim to swap the order of reading so >>> it first reads the notes from the .skim file instead of the EAs. If >>> anyone is interested in this, the patch is attached. The notes are >>> still *saved* to the EAs, so if something should happen to the >>> "fragile" files they should still be in the EAs. The meaning of the >>> hidden preference "SKReadMissingNotesFromSkimFileOptionKey" is >>> inverted so it controls whether the notes are read from the EAs if no >>> skim file is found. >> >> The patch I just sent has a mismatched brace causing the preferences >> option to not work as expected. This one should work. >> >> Sorry about that, >> >> /Patrik >> <skim_read_from_file.patch> > > > I'm not saying it's not possible to do it. I'm saying it's not going to > happen. The discussion probably did not mention the extension .skim an in any > way because it predated the existence of such files. The conclusion was the > current support for .skim files, which was a compromise. And the maximum that > will be offered. I'm not going to repeat that discussion again (and again and > again and again).
I didn't mean for the patch to be included in the "official" version, but to be used if anyone else (like Jeremy apparently) needs it to work like I do and want to build their own version. That's the beauty of open-source, after all. Regards, /Patrik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
