Hello,
When I select a document in the binder , the document’s binder background is a very visible red which is what I want.
If I navigate to a Scrivener document using an outside app (Keyboard Maestro or Alfred) using the Scrivener Link to the document, I navigate to that document but the binder background of that document is barely perceptible (slightly lighter shade compared to normal), but the Scrivener document I was previously working on remains selected in the binder with a bright red background.
I would like the binder background of the document I navigated to become bright red.
thanks in advance for your time and help
It looks like you only have project Search results set to show reddishly. I believe the bright red you are getting is probably an Apple system setting you’ve made.
But (I gather), Scrivener is responding to the Scrivener link by switching the Editor pane to that doc without Selecting the doc in the Binder. What you get is a secondary coloration that indicates the document that is showing, rather that selecting it outright.
Do you by any chance have Scrivenings Mode turned on? This is exactly the behavior you get when you scroll through docs in Scrivenings mode.
There are a number of ways to navigate documents in Scrivener that don’t disrupt the binder, links being one of them, so what you’ll need to do is add a follow-up step of selecting Navigate ▸ Reveal in Binder to switch the active document selection in the binder (which has the deep red selection colour) to the document you’ve just loaded in the editor. You can do this via the main menu, the default ⌥⌘R shortcut, or the editor header context menu, and I imagine if you’re using Alfred or Keyboard Maestro for the first part, it would be easy to automate this action as a second step to your single command.
