Philippe Wang
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Thu Feb 8 06:53:42 JST 2007
Seiji Zenitani wrote: > Hi, > > On 2007/02/06, at 14:33, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: > >> On Feb 5, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Roussanka Loukanova wrote: >> >>> Hi Kasper, >>> >>> On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> >>>> In my opinion there is no discussion: the default setting should be >>>> to invoke "open" on the file. The user then needs to configure his >>>> system to work as he intends, eg. to associate PDFView permanently >>>> with PDF files (as I have done) and do something similar with dvi >>>> files. This is a default setting for an application - of course it >>>> should use default settings for that file from the OS. Anything else >>>> assumes quite a bit on how peoples systems are set up. >>>> >>>> While I prefer PDFView for pdf files I do not think it is reasonable >>>> to enforce that on a user via a default setting. >>>> >>> I agree with you that this is a rational decision. For example, I >>> prefer Preview, but this should not be forced on other users, and >>> I myself >>> may change my mind some day. >>> > > Here's another beta. All of dvi/pdf/html files are set to use "open %o". > http://macemacsjp.sourceforge.jp/package/test/ > > So, quick question: "texdoc" or "open"? Hello, Thanks for paying so much attention to that matter ! :-o :-) In my opinion open is better because it's easy to add "-a PDFView" or "-a Preview" if the default reader is Adobe's one. Now that I have tried PDFView, I prefer it to Preview when I make documents with LaTeX but I don't want to use it systematically. So, when I am working on a LaTeX document, I open it once with "open -a PDFView" and it's done. If I just want to see it once quickl, I use the default application associated with .pdf files. By the way, it is possible to add a "(click?) menu" to choose the app one wants to use to open pdfs in auctex mode ? (just asking, it would not be for me) Cheers, Philippe Wang
