You said:
Also, thanks for sharing the sources of this cool possibility. That’s one thing
I love about the Mac: the community. And of course the configurability of Mac
OS.
Exactly.
Note that you can change those keys to what ever you want. Although, I would
advise staying away from any combination that looks like “^~”.
Also, the moveWordForward and moveWordBackward bindings are over riding the
special character short cuts option-f and option-b. If you don’t want that you
can delete those lines.
On Mar 1, 2015, at 4:20 AM, Jürgen Fleger <apple-engl...@fleger.net> wrote:
Hi Barry,
thanks for this clarification. I found out I named the file
DefaultKeybindings.dict and there’s an s too much. ;-) I corrected it and now
it works like a charm. :-)
Also, thanks for sharing the sources of this cool possibility. That’s one thing
I love about the Mac: the community. And of course the configurability of Mac
OS.
I’m gonna share this script in my german podcast as well.
All the best
Jürgen
> Am 28.02.2015 um 20:20 schrieb Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> Actually, what I said was to put it in ~/Library. The ~ means home. I
> should have been more clear though.
>
> Did you name the file DefaultKeyBinding.dict?
> Also, I recommend looking at the file and making sure that textedit didn’t
> put a txt extension on it. I believe what may have happened is that the
> file has a double extension. This is why I don’t like using Textedit for
> things like this.
>
> On Feb 28, 2015, at 12:30 PM, Jürgen Fleger <apple-engl...@fleger.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Barry,
>
> thanks a lot for your efforts. Sounds really great but it doesn’t work here.
> I did the following:
> • created the folder „KeyBindings“ in both library folders, because there was
> no recommendation in which of the two I should do this.
> • created a text document in Textedit with the content you written down and
> changed the suffix from txt to dict.
> • restarted Pages and afterwards even the Mac
>
> Unfortunately it didn’t work. If I press CTRL + Space in Pages or Textedit
> all I hear is the error bong sound. Pressing CTRL + X twice has the same
> result.
>
> So, what could I have done wrongly? Do you have an idea? And which Library
> folder is meant, the one in my users folder or the other one?
>
> Thanks for your help and
> all the best
> Jürgen
>
>
>> Am 28.02.2015 um 16:50 schrieb Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> I can tell you how you can select text across page boundaries in Pages. I
>> explained this in an earlier post. So, I don’t know if you saw it and are
>> not interested, or if you didn’t see it, so I will post it again.
>> What you will be able to do is:
>> 1. Move the insertion to a point on a page and press control-space to set a
>> mark.
>> 2. Move the insertion point to another point either on the same page or a
>> different page.
>> 3. Press control-x control-x to select text from the mark to the cursor.
>>
>> You have to do some things to set that up.
>> 1. Create a folder in ~/Library called KeyBindings.
>> 2. Copy the following into a text file and save it to the KeyBindings
>> folder as DefaultKeyBinding.dict.
>> {
>> "^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
>> }
>>
>> This is mine at it has some other bindings that you may not be interested
>> in, but you don’t need to worry about them.
>>
>> Now, restart the app if need be it it should work.
>> You will also have this functionality in most other text apps on your system
>> including mail and Textedit.
>>
>> Note that this will allso copy the page break. If you are not wanting to do
>> that, there is a way around that too, but I will only go in to that if I
>> know you are interested.
>> Hope you find this helpful.
>>
>>
>> On Feb 28, 2015, at 3:38 AM, Jürgen Fleger <apple-engl...@fleger.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> since Yosemite - at least am I aware of it since then - it’s not possible to
>> highlight text that contains more then one page of text.
>> I tried to highlight more then one page in Pages and Textedit pressing on
>> top of the page CMD + a or Shift + End. If I try to highlight text manually
>> using Shift + arrow down VO anounces something like „not highlighted“ as
>> soon as I reach the boarder of the first page.
>>
>> So, is anyone aware of this issue and knows a work around?
>>
>> Thanks and all the best
>> Jürgen
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