On Mac OS X use the open command and the OS will use the correct viewer chosen by the user open "$pdffile" On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:34 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Tim Haga <timhaga@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> While testing your script on my office machine i discovered that the >> following might be a problem: >> >>> +if [ "$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 -- 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