On 04/11/2006, at 11:20 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
That's ok. I tried it; I have mouse keys enabled and so just hit the five key on the numeric pad three times in succession quickly. It worked since the text I wanted was under the mouse. Also, I found with this that as long as the text is under the mouse, even if the keyboard focus isn't there, it will work. Thanks for the nice tip; it's nice to be able to save some text from safari.
That much I *did* know. I don't usually have my cursors following each other in Safari. Too much jumping all over the place for my liking. I leave them independent and move them to where I need them to be when I need them to be there.
Interesting question, does the shift-click thing work with mouse keys? I can't imagine how it could with VO clicking, but can you select multiple bits of text by pressing shift and 5?
Oh, BTW, for future reference, this trick *also* works in preview to select text from PDF's. Simply use the text tool, and you can do the same triple click/shift click thing with the mouse there, too.
