The tilde (~) character represents your Home folder. In other words,
/Users/<username>/library is the same thing as ~/library. Trying to save to
/library (the system's library folder, rather than yours) would have given you
that error.
> On Mar 1, 2015, at 9:31 AM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Bary,
>
> This looks really interesting, but I have a couple of questions.
>
> You said ~/library. I assume that's the folder that I access by going to
> Macintosh HD, opening it, and going to library?
>
> Second, I was able to create the folder there called keybindings, but when I
> tried to save the file from text Edit, I was told I don't have permission to
> save a file with that filename. What's up with that?
> Thanks,
> Donna
>> On Feb 28, 2015, at 9:50 AM, Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I can tell you how you can select text across page boundaries in Pages. I
>> explained this in an earlier post. So, I don’t know if you saw it and are
>> not interested, or if you didn’t see it, so I will post it again.
>> What you will be able to do is:
>> 1. Move the insertion to a point on a page and press control-space to set a
>> mark.
>> 2. Move the insertion point to another point either on the same page or a
>> different page.
>> 3. Press control-x control-x to select text from the mark to the cursor.
>>
>> You have to do some things to set that up.
>> 1. Create a folder in ~/Library called KeyBindings.
>> 2. Copy the following into a text file and save it to the KeyBindings
>> folder as DefaultKeyBinding.dict.
>> {
>> "^y" = "yankAndSelect:"; //control-y
>> "^\@" = "setMark:"; //control-@
>> "^w" = "deleteToMark:"; //control-w
>> "^x" = { //control-x control-x
>> "^x" = "selectToMark:";
>> };
>> "^ " = "setMark:"; //control-space
>> "~f" = "moveWordForward:"; //option-f
>> "~b" = "moveWordBackward:"; //option-b
>> }
>>
>> This is mine at it has some other bindings that you may not be interested
>> in, but you don’t need to worry about them.
>>
>> Now, restart the app if need be it it should work.
>> You will also have this functionality in most other text apps on your system
>> including mail and Textedit.
>>
>> Note that this will allso copy the page break. If you are not wanting to do
>> that, there is a way around that too, but I will only go in to that if I
>> know you are interested.
>> Hope you find this helpful.
>>
>>
>> On Feb 28, 2015, at 3:38 AM, Jürgen Fleger <apple-engl...@fleger.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> since Yosemite - at least am I aware of it since then - it’s not possible to
>> highlight text that contains more then one page of text.
>> I tried to highlight more then one page in Pages and Textedit pressing on
>> top of the page CMD + a or Shift + End. If I try to highlight text manually
>> using Shift + arrow down VO anounces something like „not highlighted“ as
>> soon as I reach the boarder of the first page.
>>
>> So, is anyone aware of this issue and knows a work around?
>>
>> Thanks and all the best
>> Jürgen
>>
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