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To: Spktyr
if you’re on a single-line entry field on a Mac (in anything other than FireFox or other program that doesn’t use the built in input handlers), such as a web browser’s address entry field, you can press the up arrow to go to the start of the line, or the down arrow to go to the end of the line. Simple. Wish Windows had it.

That's one of the little things that bugs the *&^% out of me on Windows. On a Mac, if I want to copy a URL from the address bar to paste into an e-mail or AIM, it's a piece of cake -- shift-up-arrow goes to the beginning, shift-down-arrow selects the line, and command-C copies. Windows one-line text fields also don't seem to have a consistent double- and triple-click behavior.

In fairness, there might be an equally simple way to do that in Windows, but it's not as automatic to me.

122 posted on 05/17/2008 3:51:17 PM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError

In windows, the first click selects the entire address. Otherwise, click on the address, then hit ctrl-a, ctrl-c to select all and copy.


125 posted on 05/17/2008 3:58:48 PM PDT by MediaMole
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