I know nothing about Vim, so I also have no idea what a "server" means in this 
context.

You should admit that this is not a natural situation, because usually text 
editors just have files opened.

I guess we could also replace something like %output with the PDF file's path.

Christiaan

On Dec 9, 2014, at 0:04, Dominique Orban wrote:

> You're right that you want to edit a specific file, but to avoid having to 
> search all Vim servers, I give each Vim instance a server name equal to the 
> full path of the master TeX file (which also ends up being the name of the 
> PDF file, save for the extension). If it were possible to obtain the name of 
> the PDF file from Skim, I could call the appropriate vim server directly, and 
> not scan through them all (which is not very elegant).
> 
> It also seems natural to know which Skim instance emitted the request; I 
> typically have multiple multi-file TeX documents typeset in multiple Skim 
> windows.
> 
> I imagine the same issue must come up with other editors.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dominique
> 
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
> No, as I said, there are no other variables.
> 
> Still, why would this be relevant? You want to edit a specific file, not the 
> master file per se.
> 
> Christiaan
> 
> On Dec 8, 2014, at 17:59, Dominique Orban wrote:
> 
>> It could be useful to know the name of the master TeX file, which is also 
>> the name of the PDF file. Is there no way to get that information?
>> 
>> Dominique
>> 
>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 8, 2014, at 6:19, Dominique Orban wrote:
>> 
>>> I've got reverse sync working between Vim (in the terminal) and Skim, but 
>>> it only seems to work when my document consists of a single file. I know 
>>> about http://molecularclouds.blogspot.ca/2012/01/latex-vim-skim.html 
>>> (though I haven't tested it) but I'm looking for a solution that doesn't 
>>> require scanning all Vim servers (I have several) and all tabs.
>>> 
>>> I'm wondering if Skim defines other variables in addition to %line and 
>>> %file that may be useful when editing multi-file LaTeX documents.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Dominique
>> 
>> No, there are no other variables. You want to show one line in one file, in 
>> all cases, so there is no need for more variables (and no more information 
>> to give.)
>> 
>> Christiaan
>> 
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