[OS X TeX] Adding to the TeXShop aux files deletion list

[Herbert Schulz]

On Mar 7, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Alan Munn wrote:

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> On Mar 7, 2011, at 3:07 PM, R. Vijay Krishna wrote:
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>> On Mar 7, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Alan Munn wrote:
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>>> I know that I can add to the list of file extensions that TeXShop deletes with its "Trash Aux Files" command.  From the example in the documentation:
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>>> defaults write TeXShop OtherTrashExtensions -array-add "dvi"
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>>> it appears that the . is implicit.
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>>> Biblatex produces quite a few aux files, and furthermore, often fails if they are not deleted.  But unfortunately, some have the following form.
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>>> -blx.bib
>>> .run.xml
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>>> Is there any way to have these aux files added to the list? (I thought that the second type might be possible simply by giving "run.xml" to the defaults command, but that seems not to be the case.)
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>>> Alan
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>> I had the same issue, and used the following commands.
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>> defaults write TeXShop OtherTrashExtensions -array-add "bbl"
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>> defaults write TeXShop OtherTrashExtensions -array-add "run"
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> Are you sure that this actually deletes the .run.xml files?  My testing seems to show that it doesn't.
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>> and finally
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>> defaults write TeXShop AggressiveTrashAUX YES
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> I'm not to thrilled with this option; it's slow and also deletes any other aux files within the same folder independent of the current filename, which doesn't seem ideal to me.
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> Alan
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Howdy,

That might be useful to clean up a multi-file distributed document but I'm not sure it is necessary for this. I'm sort of amazed that adding `run' to the list removes run.xml extensions; I thought I tried that and it didn't work.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)