On Feb 17, 2012, at 18:28, Artemio González López wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:25 PM, [email protected]
> wrote:
>
>> On Feb 17, 2012, at 15:09, Artemio Gonz?lez L?pez wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> I've tested Skim (1.3.19) with the recently released Mountain Lion, and
>>> found that displayline (and hence forward search) is totally broken. More
>>> precisely, trying to invoke forward search under Emacs.app does precisely
>>> nothing, whereas directly executing the appropriate command in Terminal,
>>> i.e.,
>>>
>>> displayline 742 MC.pdf chap2.tex
>>>
>>> fails with the following cryptic error
>>>
>>> 102:160: execution error: Can?t get item 1 of {}. (-1728)
>>>
>>> Does anybody have any idea of what could be the problem?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Artemio
>>>
>>> Artemio Gonz?lez L?pez
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>
>> AppleScript sucks, every OS release introduces its own set of bugs. There is
>> no enumeration in the displayline script, so I don't see how this particular
>> error could come from that.
>>
>> Have you tried to use AppleScript directly?
>>
>> Christiaan
>
> Christian,
>
> I've tried running the following script in AppleScript Editor:
>
> set theFile to POSIX file "/Users/artemio/Desktop/Apuntes/MC.pdf"
> set theSource to POSIX file "/Users/artemio/Desktop/Apuntes/MC.tex"
> tell application "Skim"
> activate
> open theFile
> tell front document
> go to TeX line 1000 from theSource
> end tell
> end tell
>
> The result is that Skim is immediately activated and the document's window is
> brought to the front, but the line number command is totally disregarded (if
> the document was closed, it opens in the first page, otherwise it just stays
> where it was). I seem to remember that when Lion was released there was a
> very similar problem. The only difference is that now the script produces no
> errors or timeouts, it's just that the "go to TeX line ..." command is
> entirely disregarded.
>
> Any ideas as to what may be going on?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Artemio
>
>
> Artemio González López
> [email protected]
>
>
No idea. Have you looked in the Console logs?
Christiaan
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