Latex-tree view package not working

[stefaniecg]

The package Latex-tree-view is not working in Pulsar, as it used to work in Atom.
It generates the list of sections, but the links are not clickable any more.
Before in Atom, it used to jump to the clicked section but now in pulsar it doesn't.

[confused-Techie]

Does this package work in Atom 1.60.0?

[stefaniecg]

Hi @confused-Techie,

Yes, i just checked the version of my Atom and it is 1.60.0

[confused-Techie]

Appreciate you double checking!

Also appreciate that you've already created an issue in their repo. As it's possible just by updating Node and Electron is what caused their package to break. In which case they would need to fix it. But if it is something on our end hopefully we can find out.

[savetheclocktower]

@stefaniecg I suspected it was a quick fix, so I took a look and found the problem. The good news is that it is a quick fix after all, and I opened this PR to fix it.

The bad news is that the maintainer hasn't been active in that repository since 2018. I would imagine there is a 0% chance that they will see that PR and put out a new version.

You have a couple options:

1. If you're at all savvy with JavaScript, you can view the changes I made in that PR and make the same changes locally. Your copy of latex-tree is stored within your Pulsar home folder, but I don't know what platform you're on, so the quickest way to figure out where that is is to open the dev tools (Ctrl-Shift-I on Windows/Linux, Cmd-Opt-I on macOS) and type process.env.ATOM_HOME in the console. That will give you a location on disk. From there, you can go into packages/latex-tree/lib/latex-tree-view.js and make the changes. After the changes are made, relaunch Pulsar and the package should be fixed.
2. If you're not confident enough to make that change, you can install my fork of latex-tree from the command line. But if you want to do that, I'll ask you to tell me which platform you're on, and we can proceed from there.

[savetheclocktower]

@stefaniecg OK, I see in your profile that you starred a QuickLook plugin repo, so I'll assume you're on macOS. :-)

1. Go to Pulsar → Install Shell Commands from the menu to ensure that pulsar and ppm are installed.
2. Open your Pulsar settings, go to the Packages section, and uninstall latex-tree.
3. Open your terminal and run ppm install savetheclocktower/latex-tree.
4. Restart Pulsar.

I don't imagine I'll keep my fork of latex-tree around indefinitely, but once you install it from there, it won't matter.

Let me know if that fixes it.

[stefaniecg]

@andrew, hi, thank you for your fix.
I just tried to do run the ppm install savetheclocktower/latex-tree
but it gives me an error, so not sure what i'm doing wrong.

Take a look at my terminal, and let me know what is the mistake from my side.

Thank you again !

[savetheclocktower]

That's odd. Works when I try it. OK, let's do this instead:

• Go to this page and download the ZIP file.
• Extract the ZIP file and rename the folder from latex-tree-0.5.1a to latex-tree.
• Open another Finder window, hit Cmd-Shift-G, and type in ~/.pulsar/packages.
• Drag the latex-tree folder over into the new finder window.
• Restart Pulsar.

If that doesn't work, delete the new latex-tree folder and try this:

• Reinstall your original latex-tree package by searching for it within Pulsar.
• Open ~/.pulsar/packages/latex-tree/lib/ in Finder.
• Re-extract latex-tree-0.5.1a and go into latex-tree-0.5.1a/lib to find the fixed latex-tree-view.js file.
• Drag it over to the other lib folder and tell Finder to replace the file.
• Restart Pulsar.

[stefaniecg]

@savetheclocktower (aka Andrew) Thank you so much for this fix.
I executed the first set of steps and now the latex-tree works as it used to in Atom.
This will help me so so much as i use latex so much.
Thank you for your help.