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

[Alain Schremmer]

On Aug 3, 2010, at 6:16 PM, <cfrees at imapmail.org> wrote:

> On Mon 2nd Aug, 2010 at 17:45, Herbert Schulz seems to have written:
>
>>
>> On Aug 2, 2010, at 5:34 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> For Pete's sake, I ain't asking for pity, just how to define  
>>> "option triple-click" in TeXShop.
>>>
>>> Bemused regards
>>> --schremmer
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> It's not defined by TeXshop but rather by the OS and you're not  
>> going to change it. Try it in Mail or TextEdit.
>>
>> Why are you Option Triple Clicking? Just Triple Click. Doesn't  
>> that do the same thing?
>
> Neither work here. Triple click just selects and unselects a word
> rapidly. Option triple click does the same.

That is not what I get which, in TeX, is that the whole line gets  
selected. Since, indeed, option triple click does the same I had  
thought ...

By the way, after a lot of use, it turns out that Schulz's trick of  
using Find is no better than double-clicking on the first word and  
shift-clicking on the last word because of what happens if you have  
to do some Find and forget to reset it.

So, I still think that option-triple-clicking ought to select the  
text on a line without the newline or whatever.

> If the files you are copying from and to are plain text and if  
> there is
> any sort of pattern to the names of the files you're copying to, it
> would be much easier and probably more accurate to just script it,
> wouldn't it?

It would of course but there is no pattern to the items of the "list"  
and, even if there were, I couldn't write a script to save my life.

Best regards
--schremmer