Hi Carlo, Ok, I just changed my trackpad ‘Three Fingers' from ‘Swipe to Navigate’ to ‘Dragging’. Opened Mail and tested and it works perfectly the same as in my previous reply. i.e.: Use three fingers drag over text (to highlight), type new text … and text is replaced.
Exactly the same as using the same method in TextEdit. So I don’t think it is a bug, but something going on with your setup or Mail App.? Cheers, Ronni On 25/01/2011, at 10:15 AM, cm wrote: > > Hi Ronni, > > Same thing unfortunately with either method of retyping. I used, also, to > just highlight and retype, but now because the highlighting will persist > about three times out of four, I generally delete, clear the highlighting if > necessary and then retype. > > A pattern I only just noticed and one that suggests that the problem is a > bug, is that it only occurs when I highlight text using the new > three-finger-swipe gesture on a multi-touch pad. Any other method of > highlighting, keyboard or clicking the track pad, works without problems. > > When the three-finger-swipe gesture became available I swapped to it from the > tap-and-a-half and drag as I find it more convenient and reliable. It does > seem, however, to have this one small anomaly. The fact that TextEdit does > not share the problem suggest that Apple engineers have the correct code > floating around the office somewhere but have not reused it in Mail.app. > > I think I will send a bug report off to Apple. Unless they have already acted > on their own testing or another bug report I am probably too late for 10.6.7 > as that is already in beta. I may have to work around the problem until Lion. > > Thanks for your continued interest and ideas, Ronni! > > Cheers, > Carlo > > > On 2011-01-25, at 09:17, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> >> Hi Carlo, >> >> Hmmm, this is strange, but I’m not sure I understand your problem correctly >> ;-) >> >> What happens if you just highlight the text and type the new text (without >> deleting)? >> >> I don’t highlight, then delete, then type … I just highlight the text and >> type the new text, it overwrites the highlighted text to what I type. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
