There are two ways that I know of to do this without using a third party app.
The first way is to use what are called text clippings. You create a clipping
by dragging selected text to a folder to be used later. Drag and drop is
actually quite easy on the mac and here is the way I have found to be nearly
100 percent reliable with limitations of course:
1. Move vo to the item to drag and route the mouse to vo.
2. Lock the mouse.
3. Stop interacting with everything in the window and command tab to the
finder window.
4. Move vo to the icon collection in the finder window. Do not interact with
it.
5. Release the mouse.
Note that if you do not have the vo cursor set to be visible in vo utility, you
will need to route the mouse to vo at the destination. Other wise the mouse
will follow vo when the mouse is locked and you will hear a swishing sound as
you move the mouse. Also, when you drag selected text, you want to turn cursor
tracking off so you don’t lose the selection and move vo to the beginning of
the selection.
The second way is to use the kill ring which will be familiar to anybody who
has used emacs. For this to work however there are a couple of steps to set it
up initially.
1. Go in to terminal and the the following:
defaults write -g NSTextKillRingSize -int 6.
Setting the buffer to have six slots should be big enough, but you can set it
as large as you like.
2. Create a file in ~/Library/KeyBindings called DefaultKeyBinding.dict and
put the following in the file:
{
“^y” = “yankAndSelect:”;
}
Control-y is bound to yank by default, but when you increase the kill buffer
size, greater than 1, it is necessary to rebind it to yankAndSelect for it to
work correctly. That is the purpose of step 2.
Note that after you do this, you will need to restart the application you are
using.
Now with that done, you can use control-k to kill any selected text. Kill is
the same as cut.
When you kill text, you add it to the circular buffer and you recall it with
control-y.
Pressing control-y repeatedly will cycle through all of the killed text in the
buffer.
Hope this helps.
> On Dec 18, 2018, at 2:22 AM, Hemachandran Karaha <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> In Jaws there is a facility to continuously copy a series of texts. This
> feature helps me to copy passages that I may be using later on.
>
> Kindly let me know whether we can accomplish the same on Mac using
> third-party apps. I will be grateful for a reply.
>
> Take care,
> Hem.
>
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