> On 14 Jun 2021, at 21:27, Johannes Brauer <bra...@nordakademie.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Christiaan!
> 
>> Am 13.06.2021 um 23:26 schrieb Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com>>:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 11 Jun 2021, at 21:18, Johannes Brauer <bra...@nordakademie.de 
>>> <mailto:bra...@nordakademie.de>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi *,
>>> 
>>> switching from Aqumaccs to Emacs I got the following problem.
>>> I am running macOs 11.4, Emacs 27.2, auctex 13.0.12 and Skim 1.6.3.
>>> 
>>> Viewing a pdf in Skim backward search to the tex file in Emacs works „out 
>>> of the box“. But forward search from Emacs fo Skim does not work. Skim 
>>> shows the pdf but not the line corresponding to the current line in the tex 
>>> file in Emacs.
>>> 
>>> I could not find a solution for that problem.
>>> 
>>> Johannes
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> It may be that Emacs does not have the proper automation permission. A user 
>> had some problems with that.
>> 
>> You could test this  wit something like:
>> 
>> Paste:
>> (shell-command "/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline -b 
>> -g 890 Example.pdf Example.tex")
>> Run:
>>  M-x emacs-lisp-mode
>>  M-x eval-last-sexp
> trying this yields the error message
> 699:761: execution error: Not authorized to send Apple events to Skim. (-1743)
> 
>> 
>> Perhaps you can try to first clear the permission for Emacs using the 
>> Terminal command:
>> 
>> tccutil reset AppleEvents org.gnu.Emacs
> 
> this makes no difference
> 
>> 
>> Also perhaps installing the latest Emacs may help.
> I am using Emacs 27.2
> 
> Johannes

The error confirms this is a permissions problem. It seems like Emacs does not 
manage its permissions very well. Can you find the permission for Emacs in your 
Security & Privacy system preferences, under Pprivacy -> Automation? I somehow 
suspect it may also be related to the permission for ruby.

Christiaan

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