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select Applications, and then double-click Terminal within the
UTILITIES
folder),
and type the following:
DEFAULTS WRITE -G APPLEPRESSANDHOLDENABLED -BOOL FALSE
Then log out and back in again for the changes to take effect.
To revert to inserting accented or foreign letters on key hold, open a Terminal
window, and type the following:
DEFAULTS DELETE -G APPLEPRESSANDHOLDENABLED
Tip 155
Save Text Snippets
Here's a neat trick for those who work with words on their Macs.
Creating a Clipping
If you highlight text in an application and click and drag it to a folder or to
the desktop, the text is turned into a file. These are called
text clippings
, and
they will take their filename from the first few words of the excerpt. If there's
any formatting applied to the text, it will be saved too. This is an excellent
way of filing away anything you've had to edit out of a document but want to
keep for other purposes.
Viewing and Inserting Clippings into Documents
To view the contents of the clipping, just double-click it or select it and hit
SPACE
to bring up Quick Look. Note that you won't be able to edit the file.
However, to reinsert the text into a document, just click and drag the clippings
file on top of the program window after positioning the cursor where you'd
like it to be inserted.
Once used this way, the text clippings file won't be deleted, so you can use
it again in other documents.
