OK, I got it all set up and I even learned a few things. I will test it out as I come accross things and let you know. I am glad my being bugged about this issue prompted you to assist me. Thanks On Jan 6, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Yvonne Thomson wrote:
> Ok, this was bugging me, so I think I've come up with a solution that does > what you want. It relies on you having snow leopard and it's an automator > service. > > Go into automator and create a new service. Go to the actions/ddescription > split view and interact with it. > Go to the actions library split view and interact with that. Go to the > actions table, make sure the keyboard focus is there, and start typing run. > The action you're looking for is run shell script. > > Once you find it in the table, hit enter on it. > > Stop interacting with all that stuff and vo-left to get to the workflow. > Interact with it and find the run shell script action. Interact with that and > hit vo-right until you get to the text area that says cat. > > Delete everything in there and paste the following script in its place > cat >/tmp/clipboard > pbpaste|cat - /tmp/clipboard|pbcopy > > Save the workflow as something like, "append to clipboard" > > If you want to, go into keyboard preferences and give it a shortcut, try to > make it pretty obscure since it'll be available anywhere in OS X. > > Anyway, highlight your text, and either hit the shortcut or vo-shift-m to > bring up the context menu, go into services, and find your service name. and > activate it. > > That should append whatever you've selected to whatever's already on the > clipboard. > > You can do this as many times as you like. To start again, just use a normal > copy. > > I'll be kind of interested to see how this works for you, actually. I don't > have much use for it myself, and I've only tested it quickly, so don't rely > on it to launch the space shuttle or anything, but it *should* work. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > >
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