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<div>Hey guys,</div>
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<div>This conversation is exactly why I don't use *any* key bindings or shortcuts at all.</div>
<div>I want the keys that I press to give exactly the ASCII (or other) character that it says it is.</div>
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<div>OK, a lot of what I do is programming in TeX/LaTeX, but a lot is also coding documents for teaching materials. Having a set of shortcuts for one situation, but not the other, is just a road to confusion. So I choose to avoid such a path.</div>
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<div>Hopefully you'll find a strategy that suits what you need to do.</div>
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<div>Cheers.</div>
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<div> Ross<br>
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On 18/07/2019, at 18:43, "Luis Sequeira" <<a href="mailto:lfsequeira@gmail.com">lfsequeira@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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There are a few ways to handle this.<br>
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First, an explanation.<br>
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What is happening when you press the double quote "<br>
is that TeXShop auto completion kicks in and types ``'' (around the selected text, if any).<br>
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That is what you normally want to happen, and I would not want to turn this off (although it can be done by editing the ~/Library/TeXShop/Keyboard/autocompletion.plist file).<br>
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But what if you want to at some point (perhaps within a verbatim environment where you including programming code, for example) actually want to type the double quote character into your LaTeX source?<br>
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One option is to type it somewhere else, like TextEdit, and copy it and paste it.<br>
A nuisance.<br>
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Below is the solution I came up with for this exact purpose, and that I have been using successfully for some years now.
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There is another useful feature of TeXShop: Key Bindings.<br>
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Source->Key Bindings->Edit Key Bindings File...<br>
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and I added a new one. I used Option-" for input and a quote for output.<br>
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So now all I have to do to get a double quote is to press the same key I would have, except with the Option modifier.<br>
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The trick is to assign it to something that is easy to remember and that you would not use for a different purpose. Since I would have no use for the æ character that is normally typed with option-quote, that made it ideal.<br>
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Luís Sequeira<br>
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