Re: text selection in general...
Re: text selection in general...
- Subject: Re: text selection in general...
- From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:56:20 -0600
On 02/06/2018, at 05:21, Jean-Christophe Helary
<email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>>
wrote:
> I wrote one of my "personal memo" blog posts today where I investigate how to
> select text in various applications. I was surprised to see that most of
> Apple's applications do not have a scriptable way to get the text selection.
> The only two I could find were Script Editor and Xcode.
>
> Am I missing something ?
Hey Jean-Christophe,
Script Debugger, BBEdit, Microsoft Word, and several others.
The Insertion Point and The Selection are areas where Apple has really dropped
the ball in Cocoa scripting.
Accessing The Selection through services is slow and inefficient – but
sometimes much better than nothing.
I tend to use Keyboard Maestro for this kind of thing (since 2004).
--
Take Care,
Chris
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