Re: Deleting text, keyboard shottcuts

2013-06-07 Thread Gavin Grundlingh
As far as I can tell, Control-K deletes from the cursor to the end of a line. Here are some other shortcuts I came across: Control-A, move to the start of a line. Control-E, move to the end of a line. Control-F, move to the next character. Control-B, move to the previous character. Control-N,

Deleting text, keyboard shottcuts

2013-06-06 Thread Traci
Hi all, I was messing around the other day with Mac keyboard shortcuts, and I learned a few things. Forward delete characters, fn-delete Forward delete words, FN-Option-Delete Backward delete words, Option-Delete Hope this is new to some of you. I wish Mac had a keyboard practice mode, like

Re: Deleting text, keyboard shottcuts

2013-06-06 Thread Alex Hall
Don't forget cmd-del to delete to the start of a line (I assume fn-del to delete to the end). Also, note that these commands go back or forward from the cursor, so if you put your cursor on the U in cursor and hit option-del, only the c would be erased since the command goes to the start of the

Deleting Text

2011-08-27 Thread Les Kriegler
I have a friend who wishes to have characters deleted in the traditional way to how it is done in Windows. She just purchased a Mac. WE were unable to brink up System Preferences with VO F8, not certain why that did not work for her. She loaded VoiceOver, although I could not hear it, but

Re: Deleting Text

2011-08-27 Thread james Walton
firstly system preferences is not vo f8, that is the voiceover utility one of the reasons you are not able to get to it is because you need to change the keyboard settings to make it the normal way of windows do the following 1 do a spotlight for voice voiceover utility should be the first result

Re: Deleting Text

2011-08-27 Thread Les Kriegler
Okay, thanks. I thought perhaps the function keys needed to be changed. It's been so long since I made the change, I forgot the sequence. Great detail here! On Aug 27, 2011, at 4:19 PM, james Walton wrote: firstly system preferences is not vo f8, that is the voiceover utility one of the

Re: Deleting Text

2011-08-27 Thread james Walton
no problem. glad i could help. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For

Re: Deleting Text

2011-08-27 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi James, I must have been focused on System Preferences, I meant to say VoiceOver Utilities which of course works when one brings up VO F8; I was in there when I was attempting to assist my friend. Thanks again. Les On Aug 27, 2011, at 5:16 PM, james Walton wrote: no problem. glad i could

Re: Deleting Text

2011-08-27 Thread james Walton
like i said before, no problem! its great to help other mac users -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

problems deleting text from file

2009-11-12 Thread anouk radix
Hello, I needed to get liecense information from an email message because its long and I need to paste it into an installation window. So i save the mail as an rtf file and then open textedit to highlight (shift-down arrow) and cut (command-x) the text away that I dont need. BUT after the