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

[cfrees at imapmail.org]

On Wed 1st Sep, 2010 at 06:56, Herbert Schulz seems to have written:

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> On Aug 3, 2010, at 5:35 PM, <cfrees at imapmail.org> <cfrees at imapmail.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue 3rd Aug, 2010 at 17:25, Herbert Schulz seems to have written:
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>>> On Aug 3, 2010, at 5:16 PM, <cfrees at imapmail.org> wrote:
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>>>> On Mon 2nd Aug, 2010 at 17:45, Herbert Schulz seems to have written:
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>>>>> On Aug 2, 2010, at 5:34 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
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>>>>>> For Pete's sake, I ain't asking for pity, just how to define "option triple-click" in TeXShop.
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>>>>>> Bemused regards
>>>>>> --schremmer
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>>>>> Howdy,
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> Why are you Option Triple Clicking? Just Triple Click. Doesn't that do the same thing?
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>>>> Neither work here. Triple click just selects and unselects a word
>>>> rapidly. Option triple click does the same.
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>>>> 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?
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>>>> - cfr
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>>> Howdy,
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>>> What version of TeXShop? What version of OS X? What localization (it may be different for different localizations)?
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>> 2.36. 10.4.11 PPC. Localisation of TS: English. (OS localisation is a
>> bit more complex Welsh > UK English > English in order of preference.
>> Basically English.)
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>> I always find the easiest way to do this is <move to start of line>,
>> ctrl-k, ctrl-y, <move to paste point> ctrl-y. This *does* work!
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>> Thanks,
>> cfr
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> Howdy,
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> I remembered the (K)ill command, Ctl-K, but forgot the (Y)ank command, Ctl-Y, was also active in the TextView framework.

It isn't really a yank command. At least, it certainly isn't what vim
means by "yank". It seems to be paste or put. I don't know why it uses
'y'.

> I you like to use such `emacsian' commands there are others that aren't bound to the keyboard by default but can be bound; even multi-keystroke commands.

If I'd known they were "emacsian", I'd never have used them... :)
Actually, the ideal for me would be to be able to use vim commands. The
number of times I've tried to do escape > :w is ridiculous. Or else I
try to use command + s in vim which works no better...

> You can get more information as well as a sample by downloading KeyBindings.zip from <http://homepage.mca.com/herbs2>.

Thanks.

- cfr

> Good Luck,
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> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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