∞ Simultaneously copy and paste text on the Mac

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This is why I love Mac developers — they see a problem and come up with an innovative, cool solution. If you’ve ever tried to copy and paste multiple lines of text, you know what a pain it is.

CopySwap is a neat utility for Mac OS X that, through a custom keyboard shortcut, lets you automatically copy the text that you’re replacing while pasting. It doesn’t sound as cool as it is when you see it in action.

CopySwap for Mac Lets You Simultaneously Copy and Paste Text [MacStories.net]


  • Jim Laskey

    Apple should have this built into the system. It’s just so slick.

  • Eric

    Too bad Command+Option+V is hard wired into this thing. That’s what Office and Mail and other apps use to past unformatted text. You’d think the author would have thought of that and at least made the hot key customizable.

  • http://feralchimp.com jared

    @eric:
    As someone who’s developed freeware based on reading keystrokes, I can tell you that letting users customize key bindings is significantly less straightforward a problem than it sounds like.