Latex text color in TeXShop

Question

I would find it immensely helpful if my footnote text color in my LaTeX source could automatically appear different from my regular text color.

As it does when you put a % before a line.

That is, if when I wrote:

 Though he acknowledges space, it is far from central to his analysis.  What Foucault
 brings to the board is the issue of normalization.\footnote{Much of the following
 line of thought comes from a detailed reading of Late Foucault, a period of his
 research commonly referred to as his ethical phase.  Spliced in is some...
 bababa} Normalization, according to Foucault...

And my footnote just goes on and and it takes too long to get to the next bit of body text while I'm editing.

It would be great if I could do something at the start, so that when I wrote \footnote{} Everything inside the {} would show up as burgundy or some other gentle color.

I have found suggestion that I can use \footnote{mark1} and then later write out the text with mark1 is such and such, but I think this would add clutter to my text, given that I have so many footnotes.

Answer 1

You cannot tell TeXShop to colour individual parts of the source code. However, with the latest version, (2.38) there is enhanced bracket identifying features.

• If you double click on on a left bracket, all the text within it will be selected.
• If you move with the arrow key over an opening bracket, the entire contents of the bracketed element will be highlighted in yellow. This is shown in the image below.

Both of these techniques can make it easier to navigate long environments.

Another thing you can do is put long footnotes on their own line:

Though he acknowledges space, it is far from central to his analysis.  What Foucault 
brings to the board is the issue of normalization.%
%
\footnote{Much of the following line of thought comes from a detailed reading of
Late Foucault, a period of his research commonly referred to as his ethical phase.  
Spliced in is some...bababa}
%
Normalization, according to Foucault...

The comment characters keep the blank lines from being interpreted as new paragraphs.