[OS X TeX] mouse in TeXShop. [was: TeXShop 1.35e converts 0x0d to 0x0a linefeeds]

Jérôme Laurens jerome.laurens at u-bourgogne.fr
Tue Sep 28 08:11:51 CEST 2004


Le 26 sept. 04, à 12:54, Themis Matsoukas a écrit :

>> Old behaviour was
>> 1 - click to activate the window
>> 2 - click to place the insertion
>>
>> New behaviour is
>> click to activate -and- place the insertion
>
>
> Actually the problem I experienced in older texshop was that it often 
> took more than two clicks to position the cursor. While the first 
> click did activate the window, the second click appeared -more often 
> than not- to be ignored, especially when the second click was a 
> click-drag. I often ended up typing in the wrong line because I 
> thought I had positioned the cursor but the cursor was some other 
> place.

I see what's the problem.
Then the new behaviour is some kind of poor man solution to fix a bug.
It seems that TS developers could not find the bug in decent times
(which is perfectly understandable when you see how complex cocoa can 
be)
and chose to forget the old unsatisfactory implementation.

So it is not just a question of check box in the Preferences...

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