Hello Geoff, At the second hotspot, you need to do a Shift-click. Yes, it still works in Lion, and no, I haven't found another way of doing this.
Cheers, Anne On 17 Aug 2011, at 10:09, Geoff Waaler wrote: > Greetings all, > > Some time back I believe it was Ann R who described a workable procedure to > copy a portion of a web page. Either the technique does not work in Lion or > I'm missing a step or two. > > Running Lion 10.7.1 and the Aug 17 nightly webkit build I took the following > steps: > 1. Define hotspots for the beginning and end of the text I wanted to copy. > 2. Turned trackpad commander off. > 3. Moved to hotspot1. > 4. Rout the mouse via vo-shift-f5 and verified with vo-f5. > 5. Click the trackpad (to clarify, I did not use the VO mouse click command). > 6. Rout to the hotspot which was set at the end of my desired selection. > 7. repeat steps 4 and 5 above. > 8. Press command-c. > > If I'm not overlooking a step, this use to result in the desired text being > copied to the clipboard. Instead a beep is emitted and nothing is copied. > > So I am wondering how to accomplish this task? Dear I hope that there is a > less cumbersome way to do this in Lion? > > TIA for any ideas and best regards. > Geoff > <--- 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/> <--- 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/>
