[TxMt] drag and drop selection out of TextMate

Paul Knight paulymer5ml at gmail.com
Tue Jan 31 23:54:03 UTC 2006


When you click, wait until the cursor changes from an I-bar into an  
arrow. That's the signal that you can drag text.

I think,
Paul

On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Michael Larocque wrote:

>
> On 31-Jan-2006, at 15:17 , Alan Schussman wrote:
>
>> On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Michael Larocque wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to select some text in TextMate with the mouse,  
>>> then drag it to another application? What I'm trying to do is  
>>> grab some text out of TextMate and create a note in Yojimbo by  
>>> dragging it to a folder in Yojimbo's Drop Dock. I'm trying not to  
>>> copy/switch app/create note/paste.
>>>
>>> Is there any way of doing this? I hope I'm not missing something  
>>> obvious.
>>
>> Dragging text from TextMate to Yojimbo (either the dock icon or  
>> the "drop dock") works fine for me. Are you sure you're getting  
>> the text dragged? I have a tendency to click and drag too quickly  
>> sometimes, which just re-selects rather than dragging.
>>
>> -Alan
>
> Bingo! Thanks Alan. It appears to have been my dragging technique.  
> I've managed to get it working.
>
> Carpe viam,
> Mike




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