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Paste Tab and Return characters into text fields
Authored by: arasinen on Aug 31, '06 09:45:33AM

In addition to Option+Return or +Tab, you can try Ctrl-Q followed by Return or Tab. You can also try a bunch of other keys, such as Backspace or Esc.

Such a combination has been used in the Unix-world, which is probably why you can find it in OS X.

As for uses... I've used a line feed occasionally in ichat. Tab is good when telling someone about a problem in source code, for example.

Backspace is quite nifty. You can for example type "th<backspace>ree", which when pasted into Terminal yields "tree".



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