Re: [PATCH] git-latexdiff: new command in contrib, to use latexdiff and Git

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Feb 16, 2012, 08:59 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqy5s3i26m.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <94614DF7-9EE3-47CB-BC6E-97069597557E@gmail.com>

Steven Michalske <smichalske@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mac OS X use the open command and the OS will use the correct viewer chosen by the user
>
> open "$pdffile"

Unfortunately, open also exists on my system, but does not do that at all. I'm squashing this into the next version:

--- a/contrib/latex/git-latexdiff
+++ b/contrib/latex/git-latexdiff
@@ -120,7 +120,13 @@ if [ "$old" = "" ]; then
 fi
 
 verbose "Auto-detecting PDF viewer"
-for command in xdg-open evince okular xpdf acroread; do
+candidates="xdg-open evince okular xpdf acroread"
+if [ "$(uname)" = Darwin ]; then
+    # open exists on GNU/Linux, but does not open PDFs
+    candidates="open $candidates"
+fi
+
+for command in $candidates; do
     if [ "$PDFVIEWER" = "" ]; then
        if command -v "$command" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
            PDFVIEWER="$command"

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/