#1128 Tex forward search broken in 1.4.22

[Christoffer Dall]

After upgrading to 1.4.22, I can no longer do a forward search from my Latex document in MacVim using vim-latex. Skim opens, but simply shows the first page of my document. Downgrading to 1.4.20 solves the problem.

Steps to reproduce:

• Configure MacVim with vim-latex and configure vim-latex to use pdflatex and Skim as the viewer.
• Compile a sample latex document and use the forward search command from some location in your document.
• You will notice that Skim does not forward to the proper page or place a marker where it once did.

System info:

• Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G1004)
• MacVim version 8.0 (112)
• vim configuration: https://github.com/chazy/vim-config
• vim-latex plugin: https://github.com/chazy/vim-latex

[Christiaan Hofman]

This will be fixed in the next release

[KKT]

Also, forward search is no longer working in Emacs 25.1, within Mac Sierra 10.12.
(with Skim 1.4.22)

[Christoffer Dall]

awesome, thanks!

[Christiaan Hofman]

For now, attached is a slightly altered version of the displayline script that allows forward search in 1.4.22 in most situations. Use it instead of the embedded version.

[KKT]

This also works for emacs... Thanks

[HJ Jongsma]

This doesn't work for me. Calling this script from the command line also doesn't give any consisten behavior. Sometimes just refreshes the current page, sometimes it highlights a specific line regardless of the linenumber entered.

I'm on 10.12 and skim 1.4.22

[Matthias Nott]

Somehow I've a translation problem here. On the command line I get this:

bash -x ~/Downloads/displayline 400 document.pdf document.tex 

+ [[ 3 -eq 0 ]]
+ [[ 400 == \-\h ]]
+ [[ 400 == \-\h\e\l\p ]]
+ revert=false
+ bar=false
+ activate=true
+ [[ 4 == \- ]]
+ line=400
+ file=document.pdf
+ shopt -s extglob
+ [[ 3 -gt 2 ]]
+ source=document.tex
+ [[ d == \/ ]]
+ file=/Users/mnott/Desktop/Dissertation/document.pdf
+ [[ d == \/ ]]
+ source=/Users/mnott/Desktop/Dissertation/document.tex
+ /usr/bin/osascript
423:430: syntax error: Zeilenende, etc. erwartet, aber Identifier gefunden. (-2741)

The problem seems to come from the generated apple script. If I try to translate it by hand, I get "Syntax Error - Expected line end etc., but found class name" at the word "line" here:

tell front document to go to TeX line theLine showing reading bar false

The same happens at the word "theDocs" in this line:

if (count of theDocs) > 0 then revert theDocs

This is the script where I've manually inserted the values from the script:

set theLine to 400 as integer
set theFile to POSIX file "/Users/mnott/Desktop/Dissertation/document.pdf"
set theSource to POSIX file "/Users/mnott/Desktop/Dissertation/document.tex"
set thePath to POSIX path of (theFile as alias)
tell application "Skim"
  if true then activate
  if false then
    try
      set theDocs to get documents whose path is thePath
      if (count of theDocs) > 0 then revert theDocs
    end try
  end if
  open theFile
  tell front document to go to TeX line theLine showing reading bar false
end tell