[OS X TeX] Open quickly in Texshop doesn't work

[Herbert Schulz]

On Oct 23, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Michael Sharpe <msharpe at ucsd.edu> wrote:

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> On Oct 23, 2013, at 7:53 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 22, 2013, at 11:20 PM, Dilan Fernando <eddfernando at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> I am having trouble using 'open quickly' in TexShop. It says
>>> that "Apple script error. The variable texpath is not defined".
>>> Can anybody kindly tell me how to fix this?. I am using texshop
>>> 3.25 the latest version on mountain lion. Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Dilan Fernando.
>>> University of Missouri-Columbia.
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>> 
>> Howdy,
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>> The Open Quickly (I may have changed it's name to Open Fast… on my system) needs to have a file open and then it displays other files in the same folder as that file. E.g., other files associated with that project. Did you already have a file open?
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>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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> The script has different problems on my machine (Mavericks, TeXShop 3.25)---it puts up a list of tex and pdf files in the folder of the frontmost document but will not open the selected files (applescript timeout error). There is a way to fix this error, a known TeXShop Applescript issue. I just posted a corrected version at
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> http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3825336/TeX/index.html
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> Michael

Howdy,

Invariably a major OS update changes Applescript so some macros stop working. Sigh...

Thanks for the fix.
Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)