Mac Skim inverse search not working -- resolved #2701
Description
Description
I don't have time to write a detailed report, but I will write a few words because it is important to document. I could not get my inverse search working with vimtex and macos Skim. Terminal was iTerm2. I documented this issue here
I am trying to get reverse searching working with vimtex (u/lervag) on macOS with Skim. Here is the guide. However, it wasn't working. Typing in:
:echo v:servername
returned blank. I managed however to get it working by running
nvim --listen tmp/nvimsocket filename.texAnd now the echo commands returns the name of that folder, and also the reverse searching now works. I thought that neovim should already be creating a server by default on launch. Do you know why it's not and I have to create one manually?
Issue 1
This thread helped me: neovim/neovim#20865
In particular, the command:
:edit $NVIM_LOG_FILE
indicated that it was unable to start a server due to not having the folder $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR which was my home folder with .xdg.
I created this folder with mkdir and now the servers start up and the reverse searching works. I don't know why I didn't have this folder in the first place.
Issue 2
For whatever reason, the snippet for Skim listed in the vimtex help file did not work. I can confirm that the below command does not work on my version of Skim:
--headless -c "VimtexInverseSearch %l '%file'"
However, this version does work:
--headless -c "VimtexInverseSearch %line '%file'"
Steps to reproduce
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Expected behavior
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Actual behavior
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Do you use a latexmkrc file?
no
VimtexInfo
System info:
OS: macOS 12.6.3 (21G419)
Vim version: NVIM v0.8.1
Has clientserver: true
Servername: /Users/redacted/.xdg/nvim.2195.0
VimTeX project: MA30287-2022-23Supplemental2
base: MA30287-2022-23Supplemental2.tex
root: Redacted
tex: Redacted
main parser: current file verified
document class: exam
packages: amsbsy amsfonts amsgen amsmath amsopn amssymb amstext amsthm atbegshi atbegshi-ltx auxhook bm calc caption caption3 color comment empheq enumitem epstopdf-base etexcmds etoolbox exam expl3 fancyheadings graphics graphicx iftex infwarerr keyval kvdefinekeys kvoptions kvsetkeys lastpage ltxcmds mathtools mdframed mhsetup microtype needspace pdftexcmds pgf pgfcomp-version-0-65 pgfcomp-version-1-18 pgfcore pgffor pgfkeys pgfmath pgfplots pgfrcs pgfsys pifont soul textcomp tikz trig wasysym xcolor xparse zref-abspage zref-base
compiler: latexmk
engine: -pdf
options:
-verbose
-file-line-error
-f
-synctex=1
-interaction=nonstopmode
callback: 1
continuous: 1
executable: latexmk
job:
jobid: 5
output: /var/folders/nj/g3zn51j90_x4m2w7kzh0k7br0000gp/T/nvim.redacted/VPzQgF/0
cmd: max_print_line=2000 latexmk -verbose -file-line-error -f -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -pdf -pvc -view=none -e '$compiling_cmd = ($compiling_cmd ? $compiling_cmd . " ; " : "") . "echo vimtex_compiler_callback_compiling"' -e '$success_cmd = ($success_cmd ? $success_cmd . " ; " : "") . "echo vimtex_compiler_callback_success"' -e '$failure_cmd = ($failure_cmd ? $failure_cmd . " ; " : "") . "echo vimtex_compiler_callback_failure"' 'MA30287-2022-23Supplemental2.tex'
pid: 2202
viewer: Skim
qf method: LaTeX logfile