[OS X TeX] 1) Search source file when preview is active (`front'). 2) Incremental search

[Herbert Schulz]

On May 23, 2014, at 7:20 PM, Michael Sharpe <msharpe at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> 
> On May 23, 2014, at 4:25 PM, Nicolae Garleanu <garleanu at haas.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, Herb, I didn¹t know about Cmd-1, which is an improvement over my
>> circling through TexShop windows using the HyperSwitch shortcut. Very nice.
>> 
>> I would still quite like to know, though, how to assign a shortcut to a
>> series of simple TexShop commands (e.g., Cmd-1 Cmd-F, easy though it is to
>> type it directly).
> 
> The following applescript shows how:
> 
> --applescript
> tell application "TeXShop"
> 	activate
> 	tell application "System Events"
> 		keystroke "1" using command down
> 		keystroke "f" using command down --important to use lowercase
> 	end tell
> end tell
> 
> This can be entered as a new macro in the Macro Editor (Macros Menu) and given a trigger of your choice.
> 
> Michael

Howdy,

You come to the rescue again! :-)

I completely forgot that there was a way to get directly to the menu commands. 

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)