jacob:
> > Is it possible to quit without being prompted to save changes to
> > open files? I highlight documents & leave many open simultaneously.
> > Then I must click thru dozens of 'save changes' dialogue boxes before
> > quitting.
>
> No. If you make changes to a document you are expected to want to
> save them. Otherwise why would you want to make changes. If you forget
> to save those changes woyld be losy, without you even knowing. That
> would be a problem.
While Christiaan is right - he would not want Skim to drop data - I
can see that you might like to mark up something as you read and then
throw it away. I do that on physical paper all the time!
On a Unix system you could kill the Skim process. You might need kill
-9 to force it to die. That's somewhat nasty and might leave things
in a bad state but it might be effective. On MacOS you could make a
script (write in Terminal using vim) and put a link to it on your
desktop (ln -s) - then just double click the link and ALL skim
processes would be killed. So the first part of the script would be
to locate skim processes using for example:
% ps -A | grep Skim | grep -v grep
87907 ?? 1:24.17 /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/MacOS/Skim
Then capture the first word:
% ps -A | grep Skim | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'
87907
% set skimprocess = `ps -A | grep Skim | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
% echo $skimprocess
87907
Then kill the process:
% kill -9 $skimprocess
Bingo! My skim process went away!
Here's the complete 'killskim' script:
===
#!/bin/tcsh -f
#(ie run the tshell on this but don't read the .cshrc or .tcshrc)
echo version = 1.00 of killskim 2019 Mar 22
# 2019 Mar 22, 1.00: origin
echo "usage: killskim"
echo "kill the Skim process"
set skimprocess = `ps -A | grep Skim | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
echo "Skim process id: $skimprocess"
kill -9 $skimprocess
===
You will need to make it executable:
% chmod a+rx killskim
You could put that on your desktop. Double click to run it.
Tom
Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
Center for Cancer Research
RNA Biology Laboratory
Biological Information Theory Group
Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
[email protected]
https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms
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