[OS X TeX] TeXShop 3.84: how make Color Index permanent

[Richard M. Koch]

The correct command is

	defaults write TeXShop IndexColorStart YES

Murray found this default written with an uncapitalized small letter in a pipermail archive, but it is correctly capitalized in the TeXShop Help Panel, "What is new" and "Basic: Miscellaneous."

Dick Koch


> On Aug 3, 2017, at 7:41 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In (much?) earlier versions of TeXShop than the current 3.84, it was possible to make the Color Index preference permanent, by issuing the command-line command:
> 
>   defaults write TeXShop indexColorStart YES
> 
> This no longer seems to work: after I set that, open TeXShop, check the Color Index box for a file, save the file, quite TeXShop, reopen TeXShop, and reopen that file, once again the Color Index box is NOT checked and the \index commands are NOT colored.
> 
> Is there a fix?
> 
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