[OS X TeX] TeXShop: a way to automate terminating each line in a block with a comment symbol

Mon May 18 10:38:36 EDT 2020

Michael,

Thanks for this attempt. It does, though have two issues:

(1) It does NOT remove trailing spaces between the last ordinary character on a line and the end of the line;

(2) for each and every line in the block affected, it causes a little pop-up window showing the line, and one has to dismiss that pop-up window before it then automatically goes to the next line to process.

Below is the sample text on which I tried it. I selected the block of lines from the third to the next-to-last there and called the macro.

\definecolor{magenta}{rgb}{1.0, 0.0, 1.0}
\definecolor{tangerine}{rgb}{0.95, 0.52, 0.0}
\definecolor{ufogreen}{rgb}{0.24, 0.82, 0.44}
\definecolor{platinum}{rgb}{0.9, 0.89, 0.89}
\definecolor{amber}{rgb}{1.0, 0.75, 0.0}		
\definecolor{atomictangerine}{rgb}{1.0, 0.6, 0.4}
\definecolor{cyan}{rgb}{0.0, 1.0, 1.0}		
\definecolor{lightcyan}{rgb}{0.88, 1.0, 1.0}
\definecolor{lavendermagenta}{rgb}{0.93, 0.51, 0.93}		
\definecolor{lavenderrose}{rgb}{0.98, 0.63, 0.89}
\definecolor{MiddleBlue}{rgb}{0.67, 0.9, 0.93}		
\definecolor{cream}{rgb}{1.0, 0.99, 0.82}
\definecolor{brightgreen}{rgb}{0.4, 1.0, 0.0}
\definecolor{lime(colorwheel)}{rgb}{0.75, 1.0, 0.0}	
\definecolor{lime(web)(x11green)}{rgb}{0.0, 1.0, 0.0}
\definecolor{mediumspringgreen}{rgb}{0.0, 0.98, 0.6}
\definecolor{mintgreen}{rgb}{0.6, 1.0, 0.6}
\definecolor{neongreen}{rgb}{0.22, 0.88, 0.08}

> On 18 May2020, at 12:58 AM, Michael Sharpe via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Murray,
> 
> My feed from this list is no longer reliable as I seem not to receive a number of messages that are referenced by later emails, so I'm not entirely sure that I'm understanding what it is you need. Nonetheless, here is a macro that solves what I think is the problem you are asking about. When you select text is the frontmost document and call this macro, it replaces all <whitespace}+<endofline> with "%"<endofline>.
> 
> The plist should be installed into the Macros Menu just like any other such plist, as documented in the TeXShop docs.
> 
> Best,
> Michael
> 
> <commentEnds.plist>
> 
>> On May 17, 2020, at 5:33 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> On 17 May2020, at 3:53 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com <mailto:herbs at wideopenwest.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On May 17, 2020, at 2:36 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> It’s worth saying three things for this procedure:
>>>> 
>>>> 	(a) This method is possible only when using the OgreKit Find Panel.
>>>> 
>>>> 	(b) It does not work as I’d expect if there are trailing blanks in one of the block’s lines, as it leaves those unwanted blanks there.
>>>> 
>>>> 	(c) [of course] one also has to check the “Selection” option of the Scope section in the OgreKit Find Panel.
>>>> 
>>>> ** It would still be very nice to have a TeXShop menu items, or at least a macro, to do this operation.
>>>> 
>>>> Compare, for example, BBEdit, where after selecting a block of lines, one uses the Text > Prefix/Suffix Lines menu item and then just enters the desired prefix or suffix in the resulting pop-up window.  (Albeit that suffers from the same trailing-blank issue.) I suspect other programmers’ text editors have similar built-in menu items or macros.
>>>> 
>>>>> On 17 May2020, at 6:37 AM, Luis Sequeira <lfsequeira at gmail.com <mailto:lfsequeira at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1) Select the block of text where you want to add the comment sign.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2) Press Command-F to open the Find window
>>>>> 
>>>>> 3) Chech the box for "Regular Expressions"
>>>>>  Make sure that you have selected Origin: "Top" and Scope: "Selection"
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Type "$" (without quotes) in the search box
>>>>>  Type "%" (without quotes) in the replace box
>>>>>  Press Replace All
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Howdy,
>>> 
>>> How I wish the Ogrekit find panel was fixed for Catalina, especially to get it to work properly in Dark Mode.
>>> 
>>> Take a look at the Cot Editor (available for free via the App Store). It has a beautiful regex ready Find Panel that works beautifully in Dark Mode. It would be wonderful is someone could get that to work in TeXShop. PS: the Cot Editor is Open Software written in Swift with freely available source code.
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>> Using the specified regexs in the OgreKit panel worked just fine.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, I never really learned regexs, so in any task requiring one I need explicit instructions on exactly what to do.
>> 
>> In TeXShop we already have a really easy-to-use menu item, plus associated keystroke shortcut, to comment a selected block of lines.
>> Given that defining multi-line commands is hardly unknown to TeXers, even non-experts like me, a corresponding menu command/shortcut to comment end of lines would be genuine convenience.
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