[OS X TeX] Tabs in TS

[Justin C. Walker]

> On Feb 28, 2021, at 17:16 , Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 28, 2021, at 5:45 PM, Roussanka Loukanova <rl.stpuu at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Just in case,  to share an irritating experience with Preview, which may be not related to the one with the tabs in TeXShop.
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>> Already on several occasions: I would read through some pdf in Preview. Then I close that pdf, and maybe even quit Preview (I can't say). Later, I would open some other pdf. I am pretty sure that at least one of those pdfs was via texdoc from Terminal. I would try to see where the pdf is located, by clicking on the small icon in the Preview bar, and/or the v sign. I would see the directory of the previous pdf, obviously not the right one. 
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>> Now, I can't reproduce it. But that happened, on several occasions, incl. last days.
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>> Best Regards,
>> Roussanka
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> Howdy,
> 
> When you say Preview I assume you mean the Preview application (as opposed to the Preview Window of TeXShop). That has nothing to do with TeXShop. Are you sure you are opening the proper file? The Preview applciation does not update automatically when the pdf file is updated.

I can verify this, at least on 10.13 (High Sierra).  Apple’s Preview seems to behave differently than other apps, in that, if that small icon appears at all, it is inert.  The “down arrow” to the right of the file name drops a window with two text boxes (name, tags), and a directory.  The content of the latter may be the directory name where last it looked.  I can’t be sure now (it’s been a couple of weeks since I used it).

And AFAICT, this is not intermittent; it’s just the way it works.

If you want to find out that it works as expected, you can file a bug report with Apple :-}.

HTH

Justin

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