[OS X TeX] Selecting Textual Part of a Line wo Carriage Return

[Alain Schremmer]

On Aug 2, 2010, at 6:12 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 02.08.2010 um 23:59 schrieb Ross Moore:
>
>> You could just triple click, cut, then type the newline back in.
>> After pasting elsewhere, backspace out the newline.
>
> IMO this *is* the fastest. Usually the cursor after the paste  
> stands right for a backspace or two. If more than one newline was  
> added I press on the trackpad's push-button, keep it pressed and  
> move the cursor with another finger kind of diagonally up and away  
> that the selection just started reaches the end of the text I  
> wanted. Then backspace.
>
>
> Usually I don't spend much time pitying the mouse pushers. (With  
> Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard, you can "add" a wireless so-called  
> Apple Magic Trackpad to the keyboard of an immobile Mac.)

For Pete's sake, I ain't asking for pity, just how to define "option  
triple-click" in TeXShop.

Bemused regards
--schremmer