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Nov 15, 2004, 11:00 PM
 
I'm somewhat new to the Mac world, and there is a certain problem that has been bugging me for weeks and weeks.

Whenever I highlight all of the text in a Safari text area, and accidentally press backspace, I lose everything, and I can't find a way to undo this action! On a PC, all I have to do is press Ctrl-Z, but in Safari...nada...

Am I missing something?

Furthermore, I have problems searching text areas in Safari. When I pressed Ctrl-F on a PC, while in a text area in Internet Explorer, the text of the text area would be searched by the find tool. I can't figure out how to do that in Safari. It only searches the page...not the text inside the text area.



Tips would be greatly appreciated!
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Nov 15, 2004, 11:09 PM
 
Originally posted by tavilach:
Tips would be greatly appreciated!
Use Firefox.
     
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Nov 15, 2004, 11:11 PM
 
Originally posted by TETENAL:
Use Firefox.
I'd rather use Safari...it's more Apple-like and is better integrated into the OS.
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Nov 15, 2004, 11:12 PM
 
Originally posted by tavilach:
I'd rather use Safari...
Then do without the undo. You can prepare your posts in TextEdit. OmniWeb might also support undo in its 'external' editor. I don't remember.
     
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Nov 16, 2004, 12:13 PM
 
Originally posted by TETENAL:
Then do without the undo. You can prepare your posts in TextEdit. OmniWeb might also support undo in its 'external' editor. I don't remember.
I was just wondering if Safari had that feature and I couldn't find it.

What about Find in a text area, though?
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Nov 16, 2004, 12:21 PM
 
Originally posted by tavilach:
What about Find in a text area, though?
Neither Safari nor Firefox support this feature.
     
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Nov 16, 2004, 12:40 PM
 
Originally posted by Turias:
Neither Safari nor Firefox support this feature.
I cant test it right now, but my bet is that OmniWeb does support this.
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