[OS X TeX] TeXShop prompt on replace

[Herbert Schulz]

On Feb 15, 2011, at 5:40 AM, José Antonio Facenda Aguirre wrote:

> Hi all,
> is it possible than TeXShop has an option to prompt on replace?
> The problem is that I have a document where I want to replace a text string XXXX by another one YYYY, but not all the appearances of XXXX.
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> José A. Facenda Aguirre

Howdy,

The technique I use is to first do a Find alone to get the first occurrence. I then use Find Next (Cmd-G) if I want to skip that occurrence or Replace and Find Next (Opt-Cmd-G) if I want to replace and then find the next occurrence.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)