Hi David, This works for me in Safari, Webkit, and all other apps, but I'm running Safari 5.05 under Snow Leopard. The shortcut I'm using is Command-Option-Shift-W. (There's an extra Command key added here that is absent from your post.) You can assign any shortcut you like. The reason I post the actual key combinations I use is that there's a fair chance of running into a conflict with an existing keyboard shortcut in some other app. That's one of the reasons why I'm using so many keys in the shortcut definition, since this Services menu shortcut works in all apps, and not just in Safari. When I first set up my personalized script to announce time, back in Leopard after considerable discussion with Paul Hopewell on this list on getting a 24 hour clock announcement (for the U.S.) with AppleScript (and some other configuration), I assigned the shortcut Command-Shift-T under Spark. Well, that shortcut got used in Snow Leopard to put selected Finder items into the Dock, so I had to make this Command-Option-Shift-T.
HTH. Cheers, Esther On Dec 19, 2011, at 13:00, David Griffith wrote: > I tried this for ages in Webkit and tonight the key shortcut assignment > would not work. It reported option shift W as the shortcut in the table but > actually pressing these keys after selecting all would not work. I then > switched to Safari and it worked first time so it looks like the recent build > of Webkit I was using has this feature broken. > > I will try updating the build tonight to see if works on the very latest > Webkit. > Thanks for the tip. At least I know that I can switch to Safari if I want to > have this feature. > > RegardsDavid Griffith. > David Griffith > [email protected] > > > > On 19 Dec 2011, at 17:52, Esther wrote: > >> Hi Dónal, >> >> You can speed this up even more if, after making sure that the "New TextEdit >> Window Containing Selection" option is checked under the Services menu >> option, you also assign this a keyboard shortcut. Then you only need to use >> Command-A to select all and apply your shortcut. You can find the >> instructions to set this up in the archived post I wrote for our list: >> • Re: Selecting a block of text from a website on Lion >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00659.html >> I'm using the shortcut Command-Option-Shift-W for this, and this works to >> send your selected text to TextEdit from any application. An added bonus is >> that it can also be used to read some web sites that are not accessible with >> VoiceOver due to bad HTML coding, since using the Services menu option >> strips out the non-text elements, as a simple copy and paste does not. For >> similar reasons, you can use this to read embedded tables and lists in >> documents in Pages, Nisus Writer Pro, etc. by selecting the page and >> applying the shortcut, since it transforms the embedded material to text, >> and lets VoiceOver read out the table directly. >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Dec 19, 2011, at 06:36, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >>> Ahh Paul, the best solution is usualy the simplest! thanks very much >>> indeed for this. >>> On 19 Dec 2011, at 16:30, Paul Hopewell wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Donald, >>>> I do this by selecting all the text in the Safari page and then going to >>>> the menu bar and selecting Safari then Services then Save selected text in >>>> TextEdit WIndow. I can then select the desired text from the TextEdit >>>> window in the normal way. >>>> >>>> Paul Hopewell >>>> On 19 Dec 2011, at 16:05, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: >>>> >>>>> Folks, >>>>> >>>>> I need to copy large chunks of text from safari. Is there a way to do >>>>> this without interacting with each block of text, selecting it, copying, >>>>> pasting, returning to safari and doing the same thing all over again? >>>>> Dónal Fitzpatrick >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
