[TxMt] [OT] Discontinuous Text Selections in NSTextView

[Sune Foldager]

On 02-05-2005, at 19:43, Erich Ocean wrote:

> Saw this over at daringfireball.net[1]:
>> NSTextView — the default text editing control in Cocoa apps — has 
>> been significantly upgraded [in Tiger]. You can do discontinuous 
>> selections with Command-drag, and column selections with Option- 
>> drag. You can use these new selection gestures in most Cocoa apps — 
>> including in textarea fields in Safari and any other app that uses 
>> Web Kit. (Thanks to Quentin Carnicelli.)
> It's nice to see Cocoa's text support improving, even though it's not 
> up to the level of Allan's work.

Actually, it [column mode selection] seems useless in NSTextView since 
it doesn't paste back in column mode. Kinda like BBEdit did theirs I 
think.

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Sune.