Re: TextEdit
Re: TextEdit
- Subject: Re: TextEdit
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 15:05:07 +0100
- Mac-eudora-version: 6.0a16
At 1:25 pm +0100 9/5/03, Simon Manning wrote:
I have tried using TextEdit but it doesnt support "Cut" as a valid
event. What good is a text editor that doesn't support elementary
text operations?
Well 'cut' is not a standard event at all and is quite redundant. It
exists in BBEdit and Tex-Edit Plus simply because these are
recordable.
What is missing in cocoa apps is the verb 'select' and the
selection-object. With these you would be able to do whatever you
want. 'cut' and 'copy' are just clutter.
Here's the routine in STE and other proper applications:
tell application "Scriptable Text Editor"
tell document 1
select the second word
set s to contents of selection
tell me to set the clipboard to s
(* tell me is needed for STE for the global clipboard *)
set the selection to ""
end tell
end tell
TextEdit is missing most things as regards scriptability but 'cut' is
not one of those things and I hope not to see 'cut' anywhere.
JD
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