[OS X TeX] List of feature requests on this list

[Herbert Schulz]

On Feb 23, 2014, at 9:07 PM, Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 23, 2014, at 9:58 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote Re: [OS X TeX] Wish for TeXShop : attach custom icon to a given file:
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>> I even used to keep track of these requests. Eventually, it seemed that most of them would be incorporated, if rather inconspicuously. 
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> May 11, 2009 4:08:00 PM EDT, Alain Schremmer wrote:
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> Here it is:
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> In order to facilitate later archive searches, features being suggested/requested on this list should probably be suggested/requested and discussed IN SEPARATE THREADS, UNDER THEIR OWN NAME, rather than in this thread. Note that this List of feature requests on this list does refer to such posts for details.
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> Suggesting a TeXShop feature on this list is absolutely not an alternative to making a request at  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=155796&atid=797241 .
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> This "wish list" is a compilation of TeXShop features being suggested/requested on this list. Omissions result from my negligence rather than from my malevolence. (This thread started as a way to gauge the importance accorded to features suggested/requested on this list but, while "voting" didn't seem to generate much interest, "keeping track" seems to have.)
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> Newly Granted Wish(es)"".
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> New Wish(es): 
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> Features requests that are indented were granted and remain here only for the record.
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> Hopeful regards
> --schremmer
> ...

Howdy,

A few comments about some of the items in the wish list:

> F1—A SECOND Typeset button, one that does NOT save at the same time
> F2—A preference option to control whether Typeset saves or not - and link that to the keyboard typeset command.
> F3—Have a Command-click/Option-click/Control-click choice that runs the file but doesn't save it. (See Litchfield, March 3, 2009 4:14:29 PM EST)
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I guess I don't understand the need for this? Especially under Lion and later there is automatic saving of the document and you can get back a previous version easily. 

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> K2—Indenting of the nested environments (Loukanova March 26, 2008 2:49:30 PM EDT)
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I'm not sure I understand this. TeXShop will maintain indentation after a return; it doesn't maintain indentation upon soft wrap.

Also, in more recent versions of TeXShop (3.??) Command Completion will retain indentation and there is even an indented version of the completion file.

> L—Emacs <-> TeXShop. (Loukanova, March 24, 2008 5:51:47 PM EDT + 25 Mar 2008 07:47:57 +0100 (CET)
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I've tried to search for this 2008 thread. You can set many emacs style key combinations and commands by using the KeyBindings method and they will work in all apps that use Apple's Text Framework. Download KeyBindings.zip from <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10932738/index.html> for more information.

> M1—An option to color $ ... $ strings a solid color.
> M2—An option to color  \( ... \) strings a solid color. (Andretta March 31, 2008 9:57:31 AM EDT)
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I guess I'd find this very distracting.

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> S1—Ability to take "snapshots" à la Skim. (Goldstein July 7, 2008 1:49:49 PM EDT)

I don't know what this is?

> S2—A "spyglass" floating window that is the target of cross-reference hyperlinks in the main PDF viewing window. (Moore July 7, 2008 5:52:36 PM EDT)
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No ``spyglass'' but you can click on a cross-reference link (if you used the hyperref package) to go to the source of the link and then use the back button on the Preview Window Toolbar to go back to link page.

> T—"An extensible tag list would be a nice addition". (Schulz March 2, 2009 9:24:07 AM EST)
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Again, I'm not clear on what is wanted. You can already create personal tags that automatically get added to the Tag popup menu in the Source Window Toolbar. Simply use

%:my tag

at the start of a line to add `my tag' (without quotes) to the Tag popup.

Good Luck,
Herb Schulz