Hello Donna,
VO doesn’t say anything when yu use these commands, but the second one is
Ctrl-x-x not just one x.
Have you activated and set a short cut for the service New TextEdit window
containing selection? It’s a quick way to verify that you’ve selected what you
wanted to select.
Cheers,
Anne
> On 1 Mar 2015, at 19:42, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote:
>
> Hmm. Well, this seems really cool, but I think you've gone beyond my depth.
> It looks like I've done everything as you describe, but no joy. When I press
> Ctrl-Space, VO is silent, again silent when I press Ctrl-X. I then try
> pressing CMD-c to copy, and when I press CMD-V to paste the presumably
> selected text, I'm asked whether I want to convert the document to RTFDB.
> Have no idea either where that's coming from, or where to begin to figure out
> what's wrong. thanks for the help, Barry, glad it's working for some of you
> at least. :)
> Cheers,
> Donna
>> On Mar 1, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Donna,
>>
>> First you will need to go to the format menu and choose make plain text.
>> That will open another copy in text format. Then you should find the UTF8
>> plain text incoding option in the save dialog. You will allso want to make
>> sure to uncheck the use .txt box.
>>
>> I use emacs and many people use vi, but I don’t recommend you try that if
>> you aren’t familiar with them.
>>
>> On Mar 1, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Barry,
>>
>> OK, so I've got the folder in the right library, but when I try to save from
>> text Edit, UTF8 does not show up as an option.
>> Thanks,
>> Donna
>>
>> P.S. If you didn't use Text Edit to create this file, what would you use?
>>> On Mar 1, 2015, at 11:22 AM, Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Donna,
>>>
>>> You would access ~/Library by going to your home folder with
>>> command-shift-h and go menu. In Yosemite and Mavericks, you can also make
>>> it visible by checking the show library folder in view options.
>>> ~/Library is a Unix path and ~ means everything else after it is in your
>>> home folder. You could put this in /Library if you want all other users on
>>> your machine to access it, but you would need to be an administrator to do
>>> this and I don’t think it’s necessary to put it there.
>>>
>>> If you use textedit to save it, make sure it is in UTF8 text format.
>>> Good luck.
>>>
>>> On Mar 1, 2015, at 8:31 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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