Nov 02, '03 06:06:00PM • Contributed by: Anonymous
[robg adds: This has bothered me for a longgg time -- perhaps even since OS 9 (anyone remember if you could copy clipping text then?).]
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10.3: Copy and paste finally work with text clippings
Nov 02, '03 06:06:00PM • Contributed by: Anonymous
Title says it all. I know it's a small fix, but it was annoying in the past ... now you can finally use Command-C in an open text clipping window and be able to paste the clipping into another application.
[robg adds: This has bothered me for a longgg time -- perhaps even since OS 9 (anyone remember if you could copy clipping text then?).]
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10.3: Copy and paste finally work with text clippings
You absolutely could in Legacy Mac OS -- it was/is one of the most maddening oversights I've experienced in OS X; my workflow developed around hundreds of daily text (and other object) clippings that I could no longer easily use. I was forced to do two things: one, design an entirely different workflow that eliminated or at least reduced text clippings; two, develop AppleScripts that could convert clippings to the clipboard.
10.3: Copy and paste finally work with text clippings
I'm almost positive you could do this OS 9. I remember being kinda frustrated with this early on in 10.
10.3: Copy and paste finally work with text clippings
whoops...looks like I was beat to this. Guess I should stop choosing to post a comment then start doing other stuff...lol
Woohoooooo!
FINALLY!
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10.3: Copy and paste finally work with text clippings
Cool. That was one of my pet hates
10.3: Copy and paste finally work with text clippings
How does one use the text clippings feature?
10.3: Copy and paste finally work with text clippings
This is one of those beautiful pieces of Apple logic that frustrates me when I'm forced to use Windows.
10.3: Copy and paste finally work with text clippings
As fas as I can recall, it WAS possible to CopyPaste TextClippings but not in the way you expect.
10.3: Copy and paste finally work with text clippings
Forgot to mention:
10.3: Copy and paste finally work with text clippings
Are you really sure this method is working as you have described? I have 10.2.8 and this way you can copy the name of the file as usual since system 7.0 (maybe earlier).
10.3: Copy and paste finally work with text clippings
I'm baffled now.
10.3: Copy and paste finally work with text clippings
i'm still waiting for being able to cut files...ugh
10.3: Copy and paste finally work with text clippings
This may have been mentioned, but you could always simply drag the .textClipping file directly into any text view and get the text contained within it. That's always how I've gotten around it and would actually prefer it now.
10.3: Copy and paste finally work with text clippings
Weird. When I click and drag over text in a text clipping in tiger, no highlighting occurs, but if I hit command C and then paste into a text field, the area I had dragged over is pasted. This isn't very user friendly--it seems like nothing is being selected because the selection is invisible, and the edit menu for copy says "copy 191 items" which makes no sense, but at least it works.
10.6 Shows Highlighting Now
And yes, now in 10.6 it will actually show the highlighted area you a copying! |
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