Yes Benjamin, I was not clear. Obviously control+a control+c are identical with their command key Mac counterparts, however in the Mac world one can not be selective in their selection with the shift+arrow keys while viewing a web page. Carolyn correctly differentiated what I meant from what I said :) I guess the only workaround is the earlier suggestion to go into reader and selectively paste from the mail composition window.
Best regards. Geoff On Dec 17, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Carolyn Haas <[email protected]> wrote: >> We're talking about the ability to copy something like an article or collumn >> of text without having to do select-all and chop later. >> I think Geoff is saying the method of Vo-Shift-Return to set start and stop >> selecting wasn't working well for him. > > I'm not saying VO-Shift-Return works, but Geoff was comparing it with > "pressing control-a -> control-c in MSIE or FireFox", which does not > "copy something like an article or column of text". My point is > Command-A Command-C works exactly the same way in Safari. > > -- > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
