[OS X TeX] TeXShop on a MacBook

[Justin C. Walker]

On Mar 12, 2006, at 17:12 , Gary L. Gray wrote:

>
> On Mar 12, 2006, at 8:00 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 12, 2006, at 16:20, Justin C. Walker wrote:
>>
>>> I have a weird problem with TeXShop.  I am running on a MacBook,  
>>> with what claims to be 2.0.9a of TeXShop, gotten from the MacTeX  
>>> download (the BIG one) less than a week ago.
>>>
>>> I have the OgreKit find panel selected.
>>>
>>> It appears that the "ignore case" selection is ignored (ironic, I  
>>> know).  If I search for, say "proof", it will find instances of  
>>> "proof", but not of "Proof".  I have quit, restarted, opened and  
>>> closed the find panel, checked and unchecked the "ignore case"  
>>> box, but this doesn't alter the outcome.
>>
>> I don't have a MacBook Pro, but I'm curious as to whether you've  
>> tried converting it to ppc-only with lipo and testing?  Or isn't  
>> there a way to force an application to launch using Rosetta?  That  
>> might narrow down the list of possible problems.
>
> Excellent suggestion!
>
> I just opened TeXShop using Rosetta and it does not exhibit this  
> unusual behavior. That is, it honors the "ignore case" and finds  
> strings starting with a backslash without the "Regular Expressions"  
> option checked.

That's really interesting.  I guess it's either a Rosetta problem or  
there's something funky going on in the OgreKit code that Rosetta  
can't "fix" (like big-endian assumptions about how characters of a  
string lie in memory).

It's worth a bug report, probably from Richard or the OgreKit folks.

Thanks for figuring that out!

Cheers,

Justin

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