Just create a folder in ~/Library called KeyBindings and copy the following
into a UTF-8 encoded text file and save it 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
}
If you are comfortable in terminal, you can also just copy the text above and
do the following:
cat >DefaultKeyBinding.dict
command-v
control-d
Now you can set a mark with control-space, move the insertion where you want
and select text from the mark to the point with control-x control-x.
If you don’t like the control-x twice, you can change that. I probably could
have thought of something better.
Note that above there are commands to do with the kill ring such as
yankAndSelect that you may not be interested in and there are some things you
have to do to turn that functionality on in the system. I can tell you how to
do that if you are interested. The kill ring is a circular buffer that is used
to store multiple deletions of text that can be recalled. it is totally
independent of the normal clip board.
On Apr 15, 2015, at 2:05 AM, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Anne,
I'm sorry to bother you but I couldn't find the link to the zipped file you
mentioned in your e-mail. Have you forgotten to paste it? And thank you for
writing.
Andrew
> On 14 Apr 2015, at 21:19, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello Andrew,
>
> You can’t select text across a page boundary in Pages unless you apply the
> fix provided by Barry Hadder. The fix works great and I recommend it to all
> Pages users.
>
> If you can cope with French, here’s a link to a page on my website where you
> can download the xipped folder and there’s an explanation of what to do with
> it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
>
>
>> On 14 Apr 2015, at 22:07, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is my conundrum. I have a document opened in Pages. I need to change
>> the font of the title to Verdana 14 bold. I've selected the heading, went
>> to text formatting, changed the font and made it bold and it stuck. Now I
>> need to change the remainder of the text which runs into two pages to
>> Verdana 12 point. I select the remainder of the text with
>> command+shift+down arrow, go text formatting area, choose Verdana, type in
>> the value for font size as 12, and I go back to the body of the text and it
>> has not been changed. Why or why? It's driving me nuts. This time round,
>> I wasn't doing the job for money so it didn't matter but if I did have to do
>> a paid job, how do I manage? Why doesn't it work consistently? Have I done
>> something wrong? I also notice that sometimes whatever I can accomplish in
>> Pages is limited to each specific page, I mean Pages doesn't easily transit
>> from page to page but causes VoiceOver to behave in a strange way. Once or
>> twice I had to close the app and reopen it and than reopen the document I
>> was working on because my keyboard stopped responding in Pages. Can anyone
>> please shine some light on this? If I had a deadline on this job, I would
>> have lost the customer.
>>
>> Many thanks and forgive the frustrated tone.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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