Preview applications not available (OSX Snow Leopard)

[robrobbins]

I get the fallback error message about the preview apps not being available. Being that the preview apps are input as strings 'google-chrome, safari' etc... Do these need to be aliased to the actual executable? I'll go through the source tomorrow, I haven't yet.

[greyblake]

Yes, at least one of them should be executable, otherwise you get this message. If you are using different browser you can set another value to g:PreviewBrowsers.

If it doesn't help and you want to dig into the code please see Preview#show_with method in autoload/preview.vim

  # TODO: handle errors when app can't be opened
  def show_with(app_type)
    path = tmp_write(yield)
    app = get_apps_by_type(app_type).find{|app| system("which #{app} 2>1 1> /dev/null")}
    if app
      fork{exec "#{app} #{path} 2>1 1> /dev/null"}
    else
      error "any of apllications you specified in #{OPTIONS[app_type_to_opt(app_type)]} are not available"
    end
  end

[greyblake]

closed.