Is there any way to get multiple cursors in TeXShop? This can make doing repetitive edits much easier. I am referring to a way to get more than one cursor in the text, with every key pressed applying to both cursors. In Jupyter and Sublime Text this is achieved by doing command + click. Is there an equivalent thing in TeXShop or a workaround?
[Tex/LaTex] Multiple Cursors in TeXShop
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You can change the meaning of this shortcut for TeXShop via Apple's System Preferences.
However, this requires you to set it to some command in the existing set of commands from the menu items. The one I found least useful is Save Source Position so the following procedure sets it to that. Perhaps if you define a DoNothing menu item then you could set it to that, but until then this should work:
In
System Preferences, selectKeyboard/Keyboard ShortcutsSelect
Application Shortcuts. Hit the + buttonIn the Applications Pull down select
TeXShop. If it is not already there, select other and locate theTeXShopapplication, and select Add.In the Menu title you enter the command you want the desired keystroke to map to. I chose
Save Source Position.In the Keyboard Shortcut enter ⌘ ↓ and you should see now something similar to (depending on your OS):
Select Add.
Restart
TeXShop.
Now selecting "Command-down" ⌘ ↓
will trigger Save Source Position, which will leave you where you were.
1. Built-in Short Cuts:
When you pull down the menu items you see the keyboard shortcuts. Here is an example of the Source menu:
2. Command Completion:
If you simply start typing the command you want
hit esc you get:
Hitting esc again:
3. Abbreviations:
Besides command completion there are also abbreviations.
All abbreviations for environments start with a ‘b’.
For example if you type \bite and hit esc you get the itemize environment:
4. System Preferences:
Furthermore, you can always add your own keyboard shortcuts. For example going to System Preferences → Keyboard, you can define the COMMAND-B option to select the Bold pull down (which does not have a keyboard shortcut defined):
After restart, COMMAND-B yields:
5. Key-Bindings Editor
Under the Source → Key Bindings you can access the key-bindings editor with which (I assume, have not tried this myself) you can set up other keyboard sequences:
From Page 6 of the TeXShop Tips & Tricks which can be accessed from the Help menu:
e.g. pressing Opt-, with a US keyboard layout, usually enters
≤into your document but with Key Binding enabled\leqwill be entered. Similarly, with some text selected pressing " will surround the selected text with `` and ''.
6. Macros Editor:
From Page 7 of TeXShop Tips & Tricks:
Text macros are simple text substitutions. You can also tell TEXShop to insert any selected text using
#SEL#, place the cursor using#INS#and even put in multiple lines in the macro itself. Then you can assign the text macro to a keyboard shortcut. I like to useCmd-BandCmd-Ito insert\textbf{...}and\emph{...}into the document where ... is any possible selected text. Macros to do that are already under theMacros → Text StylesMenu so we need only assign keyboard shortcuts to them. To assignCmd-Ito the emphasize macro: open the Macro Editor where the form of the Macros menu appears in the left hand pane; click the emphasize macro found under Text Styles; click the Key insertion box and simply insert a lower case ‘i’ (the Cmd key is assumed and additional modifier keys can be checked off ).
Best Answer
The MacOS does not support multiple cursors automatically:
Since TeXShop uses the standard OS input methods, there is no two-cursor support in the program.