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Use standard Mac text selection behavior

07.11.2017, 00:22

MacOS has many built in shortcuts for text selection with mouse and keyboard - see https://www.cultofmac.com/138782/select ... os-x-tips/ for some examples.

Unfortunately MaxQDA seems to use a non-native PDF handler which doesn't respect the built-in functionality users expect.

Given that much of what initial coding involves is text selection, I'd expect it would be a priority.

Version: MAXQDA 12
System: Windows 10
derickfay
 
Posts: 52
Joined: 01.04.2017, 18:22

Re: Use standard Mac text selection behavior

08.11.2017, 12:12

Dear derickfay,

thank you for your recommondation. I have forwarded it together with this one:

https://www.maxqda.com/support/forum/vie ... 2448#p2448

to be taken into account for the next overhaul in regard to keyboard shortcuts/text selection etc.

And thank you again very much for your overall activity! I wish we could program as fast as we collect feedback, but unfortunately, such things take a little time. But I have it in the back of my head because I also love keyboard shortcuts and usability is one of MAXQDA's major assets, so I know there is definetly high interest in that. I hope you don't get frustrated if those changes takes some time nonetheless.

Kind regards,

Andreas
Andreas V.
 

Re: Use standard Mac text selection behavior

17.11.2017, 15:45

Thanks. Another issue that is probably related to the above is the handling of new lines in PDFs.

If I open a PDF in Preview on the Mac, I can copy several paragraphs and paste into a text editor, and there will only be new lines at the end of the paragraphs.

If I open the same PDF in MaxQDA, I can copy several paragraphs, but when I paste into a text editor, there is a new line at the end of every line.

It can be fixed with a find and replace (or by using Preview and finding the same passage identified in MaxQDA) but both interrupt writing workflow. I'd expect that opening a PDF in MaxQDA wouldn't change the line endings like this.


e.g. pasted from Preview:

In this chapter, I have elected to replace the conventionally used term ‘customary law’ with ‘vernacular law’. The main reason is simple: ‘customary law’ carries too much baggage from the colonial era when, as Martin Chanock has argued, the very thing was invented (Chanock 2001, 295).

pasted from MaxQDA:

In this chapter, I have elected to replace the conventionally used term ‘customary
law’ with ‘vernacular law’. The main reason is simple: ‘customary law’ carries too
much baggage from the colonial era when, as Martin Chanock has argued, the very
thing was invented (Chanock 2001, 295).

thanks again
Derick
derickfay
 
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