This page contains miscellaneous useful commands which have not yet found their natural place in the help system.
After the phrase is typed, push RETURN to go to the first occurrence of the phrase in the document. This will also make the main pdfView the first responder, so the selection will be visible in blue. Type command-G to go to the next occurrence, and shift-command-G for a backward search. This is parallel to the corresponding commands for text searches. (Previously, RETURN and SHIFT-RETURN performed these commands, but these require that the search field be the first responder and thus product selections in gray instead of blue.)
Suppose you want to search on page 63. Go to that page and select any section of text with at least one letter. After that, searches will begin from that selection.
Click in the PDF file to create an empty selection. Then searches will again begin at the start of the document.
If a search reaches the end of the document, it will cycle to start at the beginning.
A user complained that his collaborators in Europe insert non-ascii characters into the source document, and asked for a search command which would locate all such characters so they could be edited out. This feature is already present in TeXShop.
Select the OgreKit Find Panel using TeXShop Preferences. This panel has powerful features and is activated by most TeXShop users. In particular, it can handle regular expressions.
Search for
Click "Next" to search for occurrences one by one, or push the "Highlight" button to highlight all non-ascii characters at once.
Similar tricks are possible using other regular expressions. Read about regular expressions on the internet and experiment.