Articles posted on September 27th, 2009

Mail 4.x: ‘Copy Address’ command copies entire ‘From:’ line

Sunday, September 27th, 2009 • 2:34 pm

This is a new behaviour in Snow Leopard and in my opinion it’s a bug. When you get an e-mail in Mail and you look at its header, you can right-click (or control-click) on the contents of the “From:” line to access a contextual menu with various options, including a command labelled “Copy Address”: This […]

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More on clicking and dragging to select in Apple’s Mac OS X applications

Sunday, September 27th, 2009 • 10:49 am

As with my posts about selection highlighting in column view in the Finder, my posts discussing selection by dragging in Mail and other Apple applications have been generating a fair amount of e-mail correspondence. The fact is that, here again, even experienced users—including myself—have various degrees of awareness of how things actually work in Mac […]

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