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10.3: Copy and paste finally work with text clippings
Authored by: displaced on Nov 03, '03 06:30:31AM

This is one of those beautiful pieces of Apple logic that frustrates me when I'm forced to use Windows.

A text clipping is a piece of text that you've dragged from any application onto any area on your disk or desktop. Just highlight some text, drag it somewhere, and it'll create a textClipping file containing that text.

For example, if there's an interesting paragraph in a web page that you want to refer to later, highlight the text and drag it to your desktop.

The resulting file can be double-clicked to display the text. The problem in past versions of OS X was that there was no way to then get that text out of the clipping and do something useful with it. Panther now allows the pre-OS X ability to highlight text in a clipping and copy it somewhere else.

Once you get used to being able to make clippings, you never go back. Windows just gives me a dumb 'no entry' sign when I try the same there...



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