Lion.. please don't do that.

[eutexian]

Hi folks.

A small irritant I know.. but i'm sure there's a cure.

when I paste a link or text into a page Lion insists on backspacing, this means the link (particularly) doesn't show as a link.

for example.

Try this linkwww.google.com

when it should be

try this link http://www.google.com

Is there an easy way to stop this happening? I have failed to find an answer using search.

All the best.

 

[Surely]

try this link http://www.google.com


Er......seems to be okay for me.

(and yes, I typed out "try this link " and then I pasted the link next to it)

 

[thundersteele]

you mean like thishttp://www.google.com/

OSX does this when you copy/paste with right click. It doesn't do it when you use cmd+C, cmd+V to copy/paste. For some reason the right click selects some text, and when you paste then it gets overwritten.

Not sure what to do, I started using the keyboard shortcuts because it annoyed me. It's also much faster.

 

[eutexian]

Command+V does it!!

many thanks.


'surely' what I was getting was a 'blue' shading in between the text and the link.. the link would then (as I right clicked) backspace. which then made the link 'invalid'.

but happy now to have found the cure.

 

[thundersteele]

'surely' what I was getting was a 'blue' shading in between the text and the link.. the link would then (as I right clicked) backspace. which then made the link 'invalid'.

but happy now to have found the cure.

it's not doing a backspace... it's actually using "insert", which overwrites the selected text with the contents of the clipboard. Try pasting something into the middle of a word, and you will notice this behavior.

I'm glad you're happy with the cmd+v solution. I still don't understand why copy/paste should work differently depending on how it is invoked.

 

[Surely]

Even when I use right-click to paste, it still happens like this for me http://www.google.com

Are you not putting a space after the last word that you type before you right-click and paste the link?


(however, cmd-v is my method of choice)

 

[thundersteele]

This behavior can be changed in Safari by going to the "Edit" menu, select "Substitutions" and deactivate "smart copy/paste." You need to have an active text field selected to be able to make the change.

I'm not sure which other programs use this.

 

[eutexian]

This behavior can be changed in Safari by going to the "Edit" menu, select "Substitutions" and deactivate "smart copy/paste." You need to have an active text field selected to be able to make the change.

I'm not sure which other programs use this.

For some reason that menu is unavailable for me to edit.. its 'faded out' as it were.

Even when I use right-click to paste, it still happens like this for me http://www.google.com

Are you not putting a space after the last word that you type before you right-click and paste the link?

Yes I am.. and this space is then deleted, by the cursor 'back-spacing'.

It doesn't matter.. I'll happily use the shortcut.

 

[thundersteele]

For some reason that menu is unavailable for me to edit.. its 'faded out' as it were.

Place the cursor in the browser address or search field, or in any other text field. Then it can be changed.

 

[eutexian]

Place the cursor in the browser address or search field, or in any other text field. Then it can be changed.

Thankyou... still on a learning curve here.

test https://forums.macrumors.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=14131481


and that fixed it.. no more backspacing. thank you very much.