Hi Dave,
You'll be happy to learn that emacs-like keybindings work in all the
Cocoa apps (e.g. Safari, Mail, TextEdit, and iChat). This means you
can use sequences like Control-A to go to the start of a line, Control-
E to go to the end of the line, Control-T to transpose letters (to the
left and right of the cursor), Control-N to go down one line, Control-
P to go up one line, etc. Selecting by holding down the Shift key
works with various movement commands (as noted in the linked post of
my earlier reply), but doesn't work in combination with commands that
use the Control key.
Here's Greg Kearney's post about this from the archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg30978.html
<Excerpted beginning>
Welcome to the wonderful and obscure world of emacs key bindings. Yes,
little known to all but the most dedicated geeks, the MacOS supports
emac style key bindings to more the cursor about and do other weird
and wonderful things in text fields of programs from TextEdit to Mail.
<end excerpt>
You can read more about how you can use this information to customize
your keybindings in the linked text. By contrast, my earlier
instructions to Louie and the commands described in that post's
archive links use all the standard Cocoa definitions and should work
for everyone. Again, this is built into the Mac OS X Cocoa apps and
is not VoiceOver specific.
Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 4, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Dave Hunt wrote:
No. You select much as you would in a typical Windows editor. If
you want the block operations you describe, use something like emacs
or vi in the terminal.
HTH,
Dave
On Nov 4, 2008, at 3:39 PM, louie wrote:
Hi all,
Is there a way to mark a block of text with out marking one line at
a time? Can I put a block marker at the top of text then go down
let's say 10 lines and place a block marker there and copy it to
the paste board?
louie
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