#11795: Support environment variables for different viewers (e.g. PNG, DVI, PDF)
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Reporter: leif | Owner: was
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.7.2
Component: user interface | Keywords: plot browser
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
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Merged: | Dependencies:
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Comment(by jhpalmieri):
On further thought, I think this is a bad idea. These variables are only
used within Sage, so rather than environment variables, they should be set
in `.sage/init.sage`. I'm attaching a patch (which needs work: no
doctests and not really tested at all), which allows for this sort of
behavior:
{{{
# init.sage file
from sage.misc.viewer import viewer
viewer.pdf_viewer('open -a /Applications/Adobe\ Reader.app')
}}}
Then if `a` is some Sage object, this opens up Adobe Reader on my Mac:
{{{
view(a, pdflatex=True)
}}}
(The attached patch also fixes a few bugs in latex.py so that this
actually works.)
Opinions about using init.sage instead of environment variables?
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