On 2023-06-30, Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.mac...@gmail.com> wrote: > you can trick Preview to pop up a dialog box (in the background) saying > that it can't open the file but *not *show the app icon in the Dock, > meaning the user has no way of finding it.
Maybe `activate` can help there? system($"osascript -e 'tell app \"Preview\"' -e 'activate' -e 'open POSIX file \"{v:fname_in}.pdf\"' -e 'end tell'") Or maybe with `activate` after open. > I do want to avoid having to ask about permissions just to print > a file (since such permissions could be broad and the user may not > want to give it to begin with) That's a good point. The timer trick likely makes for a better UX. Life. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_mac" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_mac+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_mac/u7pq8n%247lr%241%40ciao.gmane.io.