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The Mac's linguistic tricks

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Posted 27 December 2012 - 03:30 AM

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#2 poopstech

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Posted 27 December 2012 - 10:32 AM

I must say, that was great article! Most people don't even know much about this area of the Mac OS X. Thanx.

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Posted 27 December 2012 - 12:40 PM

Since for many file names I prefer to start with the date in ISO format (leading to names that sort properly by date), I have created the text substitution ym- which is replaced (this month) by 2012-12-

I can type in the day while the Mac is considering its difficult task of substituting.

Also, you may sometimes actually want to type © as Chris did in the article. As soon as the substitution happens, type Command-Z (or otherwise Undo) and you get the © back. I don't like where the Mac leaves the insertion point after that—this is a situation that I think Windows handles better (in those Windows applications that handle it at all).

—John

John W Baxter