Tim Haga <timhaga@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > While testing your script on my office machine i discovered that the > following might be a problem: > >> +if [ "$view" = 1 ] || [ "$view" = maybe ] && [ "$output" = "" ]; then >> + xpdf "$pdffile" >> +fi > > Xpdf is not installed on all machines (e.g. it's not installed on my > office machine), so maybe it would be a good idea to use a environment > variable instead? Right. I'm squashing this into the next version to allow configuration (environment variable or --pdf-viewer) and sensible auto-detection: diff --git a/contrib/latex/git-latexdiff b/contrib/latex/git-latexdiff index 13aeb9a..85aafda 100755 --- a/contrib/latex/git-latexdiff +++ b/contrib/latex/git-latexdiff @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ Options: --no-view Don't display the resulting PDF file --view View the resulting PDF file (default if -o is not used) + --pdf-viewer CMD + Use CMD to view the PDF file (default: \$PDFVIEWER) --no-cleanup Don't cleanup temp dir after running -o FILE, --output FILE Copy resulting PDF into FILE @@ -46,7 +48,7 @@ verbose_progress () { verbose_done () { if [ "$verbose" = 1 ]; then - echo " done." + echo " ${1:-done}." fi } @@ -75,6 +77,10 @@ while test $# -ne 0; do "--view") view=1 ;; + "--pdf-viewer") + shift + PDFVIEWER="$1" + ;; "--no-cleanup") cleanup=0 ;; @@ -114,6 +120,28 @@ if [ "$old" = "" ]; then exit 1 fi +verbose "Auto-detecting PDF viewer" +for command in xdg-open evince okular xpdf acroread; do + if [ "$PDFVIEWER" = "" ]; then + if command -v "$command" >/dev/null 2>&1; then + PDFVIEWER="$command" + else + verbose_progress + fi + fi +done +verbose_done "$PDFVIEWER" + +case "$view" in + maybe|1) + if [ "$PDFVIEWER" = "" ]; then + echo "warning: could not find a PDF viewer on your system." + echo "warning: Please set \$PDFVIEWER or use --pdf-viewer CMD." + PDFVIEWER=false + fi + ;; +esac + if [ "$main" = "" ]; then printf "%s" "No --main provided, trying to guess ... " main=$(git grep -l '^[ \t]*\\documentclass') @@ -212,7 +240,7 @@ if [ "$output" != "" ]; then fi if [ "$view" = 1 ] || [ "$view" = maybe ] && [ "$output" = "" ]; then - xpdf "$pdffile" + "$PDFVIEWER" "$pdffile" fi if [ "$cleanup" = 1 ]; then -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html