Only Select Certain Parts Of Text 6
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Hey
This is only a quick post today. Once again Uni work seems to get the better of me. I try and do a post every couple of days, but most of time I have loads of work on and have no time at all. Anyway todays simple trick is a method which you can use to select only certain parts of text. For instance instead of selecting a whole line, with this method you can select every other line.
To use this simple trick simple press Command and then select the pieces of text. Keep Command press down for the duration of your text selection. If you release Command it will revert to normal text selection.
There is also some other cool text selection tips I might share with you. For explain if you press shift and then click within a line, it will select every thing up to your second click. E.G if you have the cursor at the beginning of the line and then shift click at the end it will select the whole line. This also works over multiple lines.
This type of trick, from my very brief means of testing works on most Cocoa apps. It will probably work on other type of programs since it seems to be a fairly fundamental principle. If you have any other related tips or trick please leave a comment below.
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6 Responses to “Only Select Certain Parts Of Text”
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Dude,
i am looking for some beginner level introduction to developing apps on mac.
objective -c or cocoa ?i am new to macintosh and want to start getting my hands dirty with coding .. :)
Comment By Rishi Chopra on March 10th, at 12:44 am
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The trick mentioned in the article is not working in Safari 4 beta. Not for me at least.
Another trick with text.
Use the Alt key to select text in a column. Hold Alt key and click and drag down. Very usefull if someone used spaces or tabs to create a table.
Comment By Anders on March 10th, at 1:30 am
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What about:
1. Double click on any word in a line to highlight that word.
2. Triple click on any word in a line to highlight the entire sentence.
3. Click and drag the cursor to highlight any length of words, paragraphs, etc.
4. Control click on any word to find the definition.Comment By RICHARD LONSBURY on March 10th, at 12:21 pm
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The CMD + click for me has never worked. It works just like the shift click does.
Comment By Chris Wanja on March 10th, at 10:20 pm
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The CMD and Shift tricks don’t work for me. :-(
What would cause that?
Comment By Robert on March 11th, at 7:37 pm
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Ok, so I am looking for a way to select little bits of information E.G.
fjaskl;hf;ueirfjdbv f;djfh rulhfadj alfgafjhl ufjhgauriel fhgl fhgliudhg uhdlf ldsh akjfhue auhf dhu ehu hfjdhf udhl f djshfjdh fjdk jks ljsh fkjhfk
Say I wanted to only select the first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, thirteenth, fifteenth, seventeenth, ninteenth, and twentifirst words, how do you do that? I was taught at one point, but forgot how, so I know it is possible. I hope you can help! Thanks!
Comment By Not what I was looking for… on November 12th, at 6:33 pm