[texshop] What does F5 do?

[Stephen Moye]

> On Oct 12, 2018, at 11:14 AM, Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
>> Le 12 Oct 2018 à 16:47, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> It has nothing to do with Command Completion (which uses Esc by default or Tab via Preferences as a trigger). It is also not autocompletion which is better called KeyBindings. Under Mojave it appears to be related to that little line that gives word completion suggestions under iOS. I don't see anyway to turn it off but I can hope one will appear in a later iteration Mojave.
> 
> First, something that may be of help:
> 
> https://www.danrodney.com/mac/
> 
> It lists all the keyboard shortcuts of macOS (known to the author of the page), and is up-to-date for Mojave.
> 
> In particular, in the category "Working with Text - Only work in some apps (Safari, Mail, TextEdit, etc.)", there is
> 
> "Auto completion word	Start typing the word. Press Option–Esc (or F5) to open suggested word list"
> 
> Now, regarding Stephen's specific query:
> 
> - Unchecking "Correct spelling automatically" in System Prefs > Keyboard > Text makes F5 completion disappear. However, this also disables spell checking, which may not be what you want.
> 
> - The following seems to disable F5 completion but not spell checking, and to only affect TeXShop
> 
> defaults write TeXShop.plist NSUseSpellCheckerForCompletions -bool false
> 
> (To be confirmed, as I'm really not an expert on completion. I hadn't noticed the whole thing as I have "Correct spelling automatically" unchecked on my setup.)
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Bruno
> 
> 

Well, this is somewhat better:

> defaults write TeXShop.plist NSUseSpellCheckerForCompletions -bool false

F5 now suggests only similar words in the current document.

Oh well, the search goes on.

Thanks.

SGM