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textclippings still crummy
Authored by: osxpounder on Oct 07, '04 06:28:04PM

After all this time, dragged text is still hobbled. What a shame. ".textclipping" files are crummy compared to .txt files; the OS should be revised so that dragged and dropped text in Finder becomes a .txt file.

Another drawback to the Preview [Get Info] option is that you can't scroll the text. I just grabbed a few hundred words and dragged them off the browser onto the Desktop. Preview only shows the first 10 lines.

And, yes, mike666 was totally wrong and obviously didn't actually try opening the file in TextEdit. Maybe mike dreamed it.

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textclippings still crummy
Authored by: jiclark on Oct 07, '04 07:27:01PM
After all this time, dragged text is still hobbled.
Hobbled? How so? I believe clipping files (in Panther) are finally back to where they were in the last version of OS 9.x...

I have no issue with the idea that you should be able to have the option of dragging blocks of text to create .txt files, but as clipping files, I'm perfectly happy with the way they work now. The fact that you can open one, hit cmd-c, close it and go paste somewhere else; or alternatively, drop the clipping directly into a document... I personally love that behavior, and use it almost daily.

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