Hello Eleanor,
I carefully left a blank line before and after the text to be copied into the
TextEdit document. So all you have to do is select the text after the first
quotation mark and up to the last quotation mark and copy it to the clipboard,
then paste it into a TextEdit document.
Cheers,
Anne
> On 26 May 2015, at 11:24, Eleanor Martha Burke <eleanormarthabu...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I find the information below very confusing as there is a lot of punctuation
> and multiple " signs. Is it possible to write out this exactly as it should
> be written? For instance does one put all the spaces also and does one put
> the ;
>
> Eleanor
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Robertson" <a...@anarchie.org.uk>
> To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 6:52 AM
> Subject: [Mac-Access]: Pages, selecting text across page boundaries
>
>
> 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
>
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