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I have been extremely happy to have discovered the "Experiment" feature in TeXShop; it allows me to check small pieces of my rather huge total project without waiting a few minutes every time I decide to typeset.
<div>However, there is one feature that is driving me up the wall, and I would like to ask if there is a way to fix it.</div>
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<div>I tend sometimes to typeset in Experiment something on the order of a page of text. I do so by selecting the text I want to check</div>
<div>in my original source code, copying/pasting it onto the "file.tex" window of Experiment, and then typesetting it; when the typesetting detects a problem like runaway argument or undefined command and I suspect it is a missing brace or a misspelling, I
correct it in the Experiment window and typeset again (if I were to do that in my big project, I would have to reset everything--that is, abort, trash aux files, then typeset a few times, once latex, then bib and make index, then again latex--but on a small
piece like this and in Experiment it is no problem}. When I am all done and the piece typesets without a hitch, I then copy/paste back the Experiment code to the original (which is still selected). This works well
<u>except</u> that I have to remember when I go to correct something on the Experiment window, even if I move my cursor to a given spot, unless I click on the Experiment window before going to my correction point, the cursor that the editor sees is not where
I see it on the screen--it is presumably where it last was when I hit typeset.</div>
<div>This has led to innumerable times when I thought I had made a correction only to discover too late that I had typed that correction in a different place than I wanted to, creating havoc in my correction process.</div>
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<div>I realize that one shouldn't expect such niceties in the Experiment window like being able to use command-F to search for something, but this one feature needs to have a warning or something, so that moving the cursor to a spot and then clicking there</div>
<div>does not appear to be ready for an insertion at that point, since that is not where the insertion is going to go.<br>
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