[OS X TeX] latexdb & texshop

[Claus Gerhardt]

I think you misunderstood what happened: The open file has been  
renamed by the shell script and TS isn't aware of it. Even if it  
were, like BBEdit, e.g., this wouldn't be much helpful, because  
subsequent typesettings and reruns of the shell script would result  
in very awkward and long filenames.

In my opinion the script latexdb is simply badly written in this  
respect. If you want to backup a file, then you should produce a copy  
with a different name and not rename the original and give the copy  
the old name.

Claus
On Oct 13, 2005, at 22:59, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 13.10.2005 um 17:16 schrieb Herbert Schulz:
>
>
>> Then it sounds as though TeXShop doesn't know that the original  
>> file has changed. Wow, that is definitely a bad practice!
>>
>>
>
> Bad practice by whom or by what?
>
> To me it's TeXShop that's incorrectly working. All editors I know  
> become aware of a change in the file they've loaded before for  
> editing. And TeXShop notices this with PDF files already. Why is it  
> failing with a TeX file?!
>
> I think it's a necessary enhancement to sense whether the TeX input  
> file has changed.
>
>
> I am CC'ing my answer to Richard Koch. Could be he's not aware of  
> this and not paying attention to this thread because of other work.  
> Approximately 1h ago I opened a TeX file in TeXShop 1.40 on Panther  
> (Mac OS X 10.3.9). Then, in Terminal, I attached twice with 'cat >>  
> file' comments to the file -- TeXShop takes no notice!
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
> Make it simple, as simple as possible but no simpler. (Albert  
> Einstein)
>
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