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I find it annoying that I have to highlight a given piece of text and then press CMD +C to copy it into the buffer.
I want to be able to copy text by simply pressing CMD +C, which would copy the whole line on which my cursor is placed.
How do I accomplish this?
What if you want to select 78 here (after having pressed ⇧↑)?
Or if you want to select both 12 and 78, on Windows you couldn't press shift+home and shift+end.
Methods like moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection: are unanchored in most applications, which means that they always extend selections. They are actually anchored in Xcode, TextMate, Sublime Text, and BBEdit, but I don't know any way to change the default behavior.
If you just want to make selecting and deleting lines easier, you can create ~/Library/KeyBindings/ and save a property list like this as DefaultKeyBinding.dict:
{
"~l" = selectParagraph:;
"~z" = (selectParagraph:, deleteBackward:);
"~x" = (selectParagraph:, cut:);
"~c" = (selectParagraph:, copy:);
}
After reopening applications, ⌥L should select a line. See http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html and http://lri.me/keybindings.html for more information.
Hahaha. The answer is simple: it is cmd+a
Best Answer
The closest to what you are looking for is triple-click on the line and CMD+C that highlights and copy the whole line.
On certain code editors a piece of text is copied just by highlighting it.