[wasserdr]

It did not work for me, maybe because I am using OS X 10.4.11. I did the routine with keyboard short cuts,nothing happened.
I must have missed an action somewhere.

[apta]

Wasserdr -
As I noted earlier, check that TextEdit has the preference of plain text as the default format for new documents.

[taa1]

Web, would you be willing to share the script you walk about? It sounds perfect for what I need to do.

[HotFusionMan]

Great stuff! Now what I want is to be able to paste into the "Go to the folder" subdialog that you can get to by typing ~ or / in the Search box of standard open/save dialogs (or by pressing command-shift-G in these dialogs). Having tab-completion of path elements in this subdialog is great, but if I already have my entire desired path on the clipboard, I want to be able to just paste it in!

[griffman]

Paste seems to work here...it doesn't for you?

-rob.

[HotFusionMan]

Huh, apparently not in all apps. I'll have to log a bug against Komodo Edit. Paste worked in Firefox 3. Thanks!

[MMinOKC]

Link33, on 13 May 2008 - 05:55 AM, said:

I use the AppleScript code to do this a lot. I also have a version that puts "file://" in front of the path for a hyperlink. I can put that into an email message and share file locations that are clickable. Or have iCal launch a script/document.
AppleScript code change:
set the clipboard to "file://localhost" & POSIX path of sel
Since I have the script menu active I just choose it from that menu and run it that way. I tried using the keyboard shortcut but it doesn't seem to include the Script Menu for valid menu items.
Cheers,
Link33

I successfully ran this version of the code, but the resulting link couldn't handle directory names with spaces. For example, this path:
Volumes/Shared Files/Departments/...
came out as:
Volumes/Shared Files/Departments/

In other words, the hyperlink stopped after "Shared", and the rest of the path was plain text.
Is there a modification to the code that will properly handle filepaths with spaces?

Thanks!