To select text within Safari is the exact same way you would do it on Windows. Just use the arrow keys and shift and then the standard copy and paste. On 31 Jul 2012, at 16:48, Matthew Campbell <wrestling.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. > To select text, use standard OS X text selection commands. All of these can > be found in the ""various help files."" > > > On 2012-07-31, at 11:16 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I don't know about selecting text, but why not just use textedit for >> programming? I haven't found a way to get vo to report indentation >> automatically, but I don't think you will have any problems aside from that. >> On Jul 31, 2012, at 11:09 AM, David Eagle <onlineea...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> For me, mountain Lion is much faster, and much more reliable; says me >>> who's writing this email on a PC. >>> >>> Incidentaly, someone said that selecting text is easier now in >>> Mountain Lion. I have a very hard time selecting text in Safari. How >>> do people do it? What happens when you want to select a few >>> paragraphs? >>> >>> And Finally, Brandon: what to you use on the Mac for programming? I am >>> trying to find a simple programme like Notepad on the Mac so that I >>> can write HTML and XML files. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 31/07/2012, Missy Hoppe <mitmee....@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi! I was trying to refrain from jumpint in on this topic, but I'm >>>> genuinely >>>> baffled by the original post and those who >>>> supported it. The original post may have reflected my feelings about lion, >>>> and I remember being tempted to sell my mac last >>>> year because I found lion to be so hateful, but I just made the best of it, >>>> knowing that updates would come along and fix the >>>> problems sooner or later. Sure enough, patience paid off. If I'm ever going >>>> to enjoy using my mac on a more regular basis, >>>> Mountain Lion will be the OS that makes that happen. So far as I can tell, >>>> almost everything I hated about lion has been >>>> fixed, and for the 1 or 2 very minor issues that still exist, I have my >>>> external drive that runs snow leopard. Mountain lion >>>> is significantly faster than Lion was, I haven't had any busies that I can >>>> recall, and best of all, VO always comes on at >>>> start-up, something which almost never happened under lion for me. Folks >>>> are >>>> definitely entitled to their opinions, but this >>>> almost seems like deliberate bashing just to cause drama. Maybe I'm the >>>> exception to the rule, but I simply can't imagine >>>> anyone thinking that Lion was better than ML. >>>> OK. I'm done now. I don't want to contribute too much to the drama, but I >>>> just had to speak up since for me, Mountain Lion is >>>> like a night and day improvement over Lion, and I'm genuinely excited about >>>> using my mac now. >>>> Missy >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Tanner >>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 10:17 AM >>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> Subject: Re: Very Disappointed with Mountain Lion >>>> >>>> I would definately agree, but if you remember, last year when Lion came out >>>> we went through this same complaint cycle. People want all the new stuff, >>>> but they want it to all work the same and don't want to take the time and >>>> energy to learn the new stuff. Some how it should >>>> just jump into their minds how to do everything. >>>> >>>> Perhaps, people should get the two new books from Bookshare about Mountain >>>> Lion and study those and learn before complaining. >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Kawal Gucukoglu" <kawa...@me.com> >>>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 3:42 AM >>>> Subject: Re: Very Disappointed with Mountain Lion >>>> >>>> >>>> Hello All. >>>> >>>> Now what I might say may be something that people may not like but I am one >>>> for plain speaking and will not mince my words. However, this is my >>>> opinion. >>>> >>>> People say that they may be disappointed with one thing or another and it >>>> is >>>> their right to do so of course. >>>> >>>> But when anything new is released, there is going to be bugs etc as I have >>>> been a beta tester and know how hard people work to get a product into >>>> shape. >>>> >>>> So rather than people complaining as people seem to do, why not just send >>>> your concerns to Apple Accessibility and rather than bashing a product work >>>> with them to improve a producct? It would be so positivve to do that and >>>> sit and be passive about things as everyone would make a difference. If >>>> everything was plain sailing, life would be dull. So chill and think to do >>>> something positive. >>>> >>>> Kawal. >>>> >>>> On 31 Jul 2012, at 04:41 AM, James Mannion <mannion...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> And when the accessible web browsing experience on the mac at least >>>>> matches windows, I'll buy it. busy busy busy, can't handel large >>>>> amounts of text, ignores this and that on the page, the entire web >>>>> thing was why I gave up on the mac thing and sold my mac mini. To do >>>>> the web on the mac you have to put on those rose colored glasses that >>>>> view everything from a pro Apple perspective and you can't require >>>>> that it gets the job done. >>>>> >>>>> Jim >>>>> >>>>> On 7/30/12, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> Been reading all these posts the last few days about how amazed >>>>>> everyone is with Mountain Lion, and not sure what all the amazement >>>>>> iss about. >>>>>> >>>>>> It only took three days as I just had to use the Force Quit for >>>>>> Safari, and all it took was actually trying to login to my Yahoo >>>>>> Fantasy Baseball Page. I pulled it up and first the first time ever >>>>>> got a cookie message that said my safari cookie had expired, after I >>>>>> got out of that window safari did nothing but Busy Busy Busy for the >>>>>> better part of ten minutes before I went to force quit. >>>>>> >>>>>> I already had been very unimpressed with Mountain Lion between the VO >>>>>> space bar not properly selecting items I clicked on to the features >>>>>> being very blah Seriously dictation is useless for anyone who knows >>>>>> how to type. The notification center is useless especially if you keep >>>>>> Night Owl open like I do to Tweet, and Imessage, I'm sorry but I fail >>>>>> to see the point as most of us have our Iphone sitting right next to >>>>>> us. I hate to be so negative, but considering how many people were >>>>>> bashing Lion which didn't have that many problems, I fail to see where >>>>>> the significant upgrade is. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups >>>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> http://www.davideagle.co.uk >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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