thanks this is reallyhelpful Dr Julie Rattray Lecturer in Psychology and Education University of durham School of Education Leazes Road DURHAM DH1 1TA
Tel: 0191 33 48249 Email: julie.ratt...@durham.ac.uk > On 26 May 2015, at 06:52, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Here is the fix for this problem. > > Open a TextEdit document and paste in the following without the quotes: > > "{ > "^y" = "yankAndSelect:"; //control-y > "^\@" = "setMark:"; //control-@ > "^w" = "deleteToMark:"; //control-w > "^x" = { //control-x control-x > "^x" = "selectToMark:"; > }; > "^ " = "setMark:"; //control-space > "~f" = "moveWordForward:"; //option-f > "~b" = "moveWordBackward:"; //option-b > }" > > Save the document as: > DefaultKeyBinding.dict > > You’ll need to change the extension to .dict manually. > > Go to your user library by going to the Go menu in Finder and using the VO > keys to navigate down to Library. > Create a folder Called KeyBindings and put the .dict document into it. > > From now on, you should be able to select text in any text editing > application by pressing Ctrl-Space to mark the beginning of the selection, > and Ctrl-x-x to mark the end of the selection. Everything in between will be > selected, including page breaks. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > >