[OS X TeX] Suspicion of TeXShop bug

[Richard Koch]

Folks,

I apologize for the bug which was extensively discussed Monday. This
bug will be fixed in the next release, which is essentially ready to  
go. There
will be a week and a half delay because I must grade homework and  
give and
grade a final.

Ernesto Trajano de Lima correctly explained the bug when he wrote:


>> I think I may have spotted the problem. And it may have something  
>> to do with the undo manager (cmd+z) and the save function (cmd+s).  
>> First, let me tell you that I could also reproduce it using  
>> TextEdit. So, I think the bug may be Apple's fault! ;-) Well, the  
>> steps to reproduce it are the following:
>>
>> 1- Open a document with TeXShop.
>> 2- Write something and save the document (cmd+s).
>> 3- Typeset the document. Your changes are visible in the preview  
>> window.
>> 4- Now, undo what you wrote (cmd+z). The black dot should appear  
>> in the close button (the red one).
>> 5- Start writing anything. The black dot will disappear and, for  
>> the system, the document has not changed at all.
>> 6- Typeset again. Your changes **won't** be visible in the preview  
>> window.
>>

Let me confess that I've known about the bug for some time.  
Originally, TeXShop didn't allow
undo past a save because I copied Apple's save code from the TextEdit  
source, and that code
cleared the undo stack after a save. Then users requested the ability  
to undo past a save, so I
added some code which almost worked. Sometimes the "file is dirty  
dot" would get out of sync
when you retreated past a save.

All of the discussion today caused me to investigate this matter  
again. It turns out that Apple added
a command to Cocoa in Tiger permitting undo past a save. I just added  
it to TeXShop and it works.
The problem will be fixed in 2.04 but not in 1.41, because 1.41  
doesn't have access to Tiger.

Dick
koch at math.uoregon.edu

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