[OS X TeX] Command completion troubles

[Herbert Schulz]

On Aug 27, 2014, at 2:31 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

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> On Aug 27, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Don Green Dragon <fergdc at shaw.ca> wrote:
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>> With respect to my settings. Checking «Source -> Key Bindings -> Toggle On/Off» I see that the 
>> «Toggle On/Off» part is checkmarked.
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>> Looking in «TeXShop -> Preferences -> Source -> Command Completion Triggered By:» I find that «Escape Key» is active.
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>> The two settings above have been that way forever, a long time!!, I think.
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>> With respect to command completion: Relative your example \sec. In a source file which is active and performing well, I type
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>> \sec
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>> with a blank line above, as shown, then press the `Trigger’, which is the ESC key, and nothing happens. The behaviour used to be as you described. I get the same `no action’ response with
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>> \benu  «press trigger» 
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>> So somewhere, somehow I must have disabled command completion, but where would that have been done?
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>> Thanks for your always helpful advice.
>> 
>> 
>> don green dragon
>> fergdc at shaw.ca
>> 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> There is no toggle for Command Completion since it takes an active press of the trigger to engage it.
> 
> Please Quit TeXShop, Open ~/Library/TeXShop and move the CommandCompletion folder to the Desktop and finally Open TeXShop again. Then try to open a new file, place
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> \sec
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> at the start of a line and press the trigger (Esc in your case) key. If nothing happens please send me a copy of the CommandCompletion.txt file found in ~/Library/TeXShop/CommandCompletion.
> 
> Please remember that ~/Library is the Library folder in you HOME folder (NOT /Library which is the Library folder at the base of your Hard Drive). Under OS X 10.7 and later ~/Library is hidden by default. To Open it Click on the Go Menu in Finder and press the Opt key so that the new Library item shows in the menu.
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> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 

Howdy,

Does Command Completion work for you now?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)