Re: Control-drag to duplicate

On Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 6:25:57 AM UTC-4, ollie wrote: > > Option, in place of Control, is the magic key for drag–drop copy–paste in > BBEdit. > And in the standard Mac OS for many years. For me, control-dragging in Word (2011?) gives me a menu asking what I want to do, which is more

Re: Control-drag to duplicate

Try the Option key. > On Apr 24, 2017, at 1:43 PM, Irl > wrote: > > In some text editors (Word 2011, in particular), highlighting a selection, > clicking on it, pressing and holding the control key, then dragging, will > create a

Re: Control-drag for duplicate

Thanks! I thought I had tried all the combinations but I hadn't. Sorry about the duplicate post; it took a long time to appear and I was wondering if it got lost somehow. On Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 4:21:08 AM UTC-4, Tom wrote: > > Drag the selection and then hold down the Option (⌥) key when

Re: Control-drag to duplicate

Thanks! Sorry about duplicate post; I didn't realize that it takes a while for moderation to happen. On Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 6:25:57 AM UTC-4, ollie wrote: > > Option, in place of Control, is the magic key for drag–drop copy–paste in > BBEdit. > > On 25 April 2017 at 06:13, Irl

Re: Control-drag to duplicate

Option, in place of Control, is the magic key for drag–drop copy–paste in BBEdit. On 25 April 2017 at 06:13, Irl wrote: > In some text editors (Word 2011, in particular), highlighting a selection, > clicking on it, pressing and holding the control key, then dragging,

Re: Control-drag for duplicate

Drag the selection and then hold down the Option (⌥) key when releasing the mouse button. This works in most Mac applications, including MS Word. – Tom On Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 9:47:43 AM UTC+2, Irl wrote: > > In some apps (such as Word 2011), highlighting text, then clicking on it >

Control-drag for duplicate

In some apps (such as Word 2011), highlighting text, then clicking on it and ctrl-dragging it will duplicate it in the new location. It would be great if that worked in BBEdit. (Or if that fact were discoverable in the documentation). Help, please! -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion

Control-drag to duplicate

In some text editors (Word 2011, in particular), highlighting a selection, clicking on it, pressing and holding the control key, then dragging, will create a copy and place it where the cursor is when the mouse button is released. I can't make this happen in BBEdit. Does the feature exist