[OS X TeX] Deleting a piece of text on texshop editor -issue

[Dilan Fernando]

Herb,
Well, by a double tap do you mean a tap with two fingers at the same time?
If that is the case, then yes, I do have it enabled?. Should I disable it?
Dilan

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>wrote:

>
> On Mar 3, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Dilan Fernando <eddfernando at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Gary,
> > Well I tried that but that doesn't solve my problem.
> > But thanks for your answer anyway.
> > Dilan
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Gary L. Gray <glgray at me.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 2, 2013, at 8:57 PM, Dilan Fernando <eddfernando at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I use Texshop to typeset my documents. But I have a bit of a
> > > problem when I want to delete some piece of text. Let's say
> > > if I want to delete a whole paragraph and then I choose the
> > > whole paragraph by selecting the whole thing by dragging
> > > my finger on my trackpad ( I am using a Macbook Pro with Mountain Lion
> > > and the latest version of TexShop) and then hit the delete key. But
> > > the paragraph does not get deleted until I tap the trackpad again. I
> understand that
> > > this is a minor issue, but this is so annoying.
> > >
> > >  I tried the same with other text editors I have and I have no such
> issues.
> > > Also, if I do the same without using my trackpad, (instead select the
> > > piece of text I want to delete using shift+arrow keys and hit delete
> > > key then everything gets deleted without a problem. No such issues
> whatsoever.
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong here? Is this a bug? Can anyone please help?.
> > >
> > > Thanks so much for your time.
> >
> > I have never seen this in TeXShop on any of my MacBook Pros. You may
> have a trackpad gesture turned on that is causing this to happen. Head to
> System Preferances > Trackpad and mess with some of the settings there.
> >
> > I hope this helps.
> >
> > Gary
>
> Howdy,
>
> I've also never seen this behavior with any version of TeXShop. I'm
> presently running TeXShop 3.11 unde OS X 10.8.2. Given that it only happens
> when selecting using the TrackPad it must be a setting there. Do you have
> double-tap set to a left click?
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
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