[OS X TeX] TeXShop 4.10 lost my editor color preferences

Thu Sep 27 17:28:19 EDT 2018

Aha…the change was made in 4.08, not 4.09. That’s how I missed the description of the change re colors in the Changes document; I just didn’t scroll down far enough, not remembering that 4.08, 4.09, and 4.10 came within so short a period.

I _have_ successfully restored my colors now.

> On 27 Sep2018, at 5:23 PM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> Murray,
> 
> I spent hours and hours and hours writing the Changes document that is in the TeXShop Help
> Menu, and yet nobody seems to read it.
> 
> In particular, these comments describe a very ingenious method I invented for people
> with your exact problem. If you only read them.
> 
> Themes is an entirely new way to set colors. However, the old default color choices are still there, they just aren't used any more. However, the Themes Panel in TeXShop Preferences has a special menu item
> named "New Theme from Prefs.". This looks at your old default choices and creates a new Theme
> with those colors. You get to name that theme. Then it you switch to it for your Lite colors, you'll
> be back to where you were.
> 
> Dick Koch
> 
> 
>> On Sep 27, 2018, at 2:10 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Please IGNORE this P.S.! I did find the Index item. But underlying issue remains that all my old setting seem to have vanished.
>> 
>>> On 27 Sep2018, at 5:07 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> P.S. Also, that TeXShop Preferences > Themes panel does not seem to have any way to change colors for what I really had needed changed originally, namely, \index commands.
>>> 
>>>> On 27 Sep2018, at 5:05 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> But how do I get back the syntax colors I had before?
>>>> 
>>>> I _may_ have started with your HSTeXShopSyntaxColors.sh script for those, but I may have also made changes.
>>>> 
>>>> Did TS 4.09/4.10 simply discard all my changes and replace them with new ones? (If so, that’s very bad!)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 27 Sep2018, at 4:47 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com <mailto:herbs at wideopenwest.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sep 27, 2018, at 3:33 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> When I upgraded TeXShop to 4.10 (and maybe when I upgraded to 4.09), it trashed all my carefully chosen non-default syntax colors.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> How can I recover what I had (without going to the excruciating trouble of trying rbg combos until I hit what I had)?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> P.S. Contrary to what the docs say, searching for “syntax colors” in the TeXShop elp Panel turns up nothing there!  There is info on this if I drill down from the Help Panel to “How do I configure TeXShop?” and then to “Hidden Preference Items”.
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> Murray Eisenberg			murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
>>>>>> 503 King Farm Blvd #101	Home (240)-246-7240
>>>>>> Rockville, MD 20850-6667	Mobile (413)-427-5334
>>>>> 
>>>>> Howdy,
>>>>> 
>>>>> The colors are still saved in your preferences but 4.09 and later use a different (and I think better) method to store them. You can get them back!!!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Open TeXShop->Preferences and click on the new Themes tab. The bottom button says `New Theme from Prefs'. If you click it you'll be prompted for a name for the theme; type one and click OK. Click on `Save Edited Theme'. You can then choose that theme for you Lite and/or Dark Mode Theme from the popup menu near the top, left. Finally press OK and you'll have your syntax colors back.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Good Luck,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Herb Schulz
>>>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>>>>> 
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>>>> 503 King Farm Blvd #101	Home (240)-246-7240
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>>>> 
>>> 
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>>> Murray Eisenberg			murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
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