Then I added a very short (0.2 seconds) pause to the Keyboard Maestro macro. (Again, this is not foolproof, but close enough for our purposes.) We do this first by trying the menu item "Edit -> Select All" and if that does not work, we fall back on ⌘ + A, the usual keyboard shortcut for 'Select All' in most apps. If the 'Cut' menu is not enabled, then we can assume that need to do 'Select All' in order to capture all of the text from the current application. It is not foolproof, but it will cover us for most of the cases, and when it fails, all it means is that we will send all of the text to BBEdit instead of just the selected text. This is a quick test to see if the user has selected text in the current application. Most Mac apps have an "Edit" menu with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Select All as sub-menu items.
QUICKCURSOR DOWNLOAD
If you download and import the macro into Keyboard Maestro, you should be able to follow along as I explain each step.įirst the macro checks to see if there is a menu item named 'Cut' which is enabled.
QUICKCURSOR HOW TO
I provided it for people who might be curious how to make their own Keyboard Maestro macros.
QUICKCURSOR FREE
If you don't care how this works 'under the hood' feel free to skip this section. Also, after each temporary 'Edit Anywhere' file is used it is moved to your Trash, where it will remain until you empty it, in case you need to recover text from one of those files. If, for some reason, the process does not complete successfully, you will still have the edited text on your pasteboard and you can manually paste it wherever you want. When you finish editing the file, simply close it and you will be taken back to the app that you were using, and the text will be pasted back into place. That text will be 'cut', saved to a temporary file in your Home directory, and then opened in BBEdit. Otherwise, it will select all of the text from the current application. The macro tries to determine if you have selected text in the current application. See Brett Terpstra's "A Useful Caps Lock Key" for more information.) You can, of course, set the keyboard shortcut to be anything you want. (That might seems complicated, but I have remapped my Caps Lock key to equal Command+Option+Control+Shift, so all I have to press is Caps Lock + Q. In Keyboard Maestro you will need to choose a keyboard shortcut to trigger 'Edit Anywhere.' I use Command+Option+Control+Shift+Q.
QUICKCURSOR INSTALL
It will tell you if they are installed and up-to-date.) If you purchased BBEdit from the Mac App Store, you will need to download and install the tools from. (If you aren't sure if they are already installed, go ahead and use the menu. If you purchased BBEdit directly from Bare Bones, you can use the "Install Command Line Tools." menu option as show in the image here. kmmacro file).Īlso, you'll need to make sure that you have installed BBEdit's command-line tool. If you use those apps, all you have to do is download and import the Keyboard Maestro macro (note: make sure Keyboard Maestro is running before you try to import the. (It would be possible to adapt this to other text editors as well. It uses Keyboard Maestro and BBEdit to replicate most of the functionality from QuickCursor. My solution to this problem is called Edit Anywhere. BBEdit and Keyboard Maestro to the rescue, again. I am still hopeful that someone will revive QuickCursor as a non-MAS app, but until that happens, I needed a temporary solution. (Can't say that I blame him after making a great-but-niche-market app for the Mac App Store, only to have Apple change the rules and make it impossible to continue selling it in the Mac App Store.)
QUICKCURSOR CODE
Jesse Grosjean, the developer, released the source code on GitHub because he was not planning to continue updating it. Unfortunately sandboxing killed QuickCursor, meaning that it could no longer be sold through the Mac App Store. (If you're still not clear on the concept, watch the YouTube video for QuickCursor.) For example, if I was writing a lengthy response to a question on AskDifferent in my web browser but didn't want to lose my work if the browser crashed, I could use QuickCursor to write it in BBEdit instead. It was a great utility which let you send text from any application to your favorite text editor, and then when you were done, it would send the text back from your favorite text editor to the original application. QuickCursor was the first app I bought on the Mac App Store.
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