Copy multiple selected items?

[jessegrosjean]

Ha, actually looks like it is somewhat possible:

Discontinuous selection

That’s interesting – I hadn’t noticed this pattern before. If we ⌘-click to create a discontinuous selection like: [Screenshot 2021-03-19 at 14.09.03] and then ⌘X to cut [Screenshot 2021-03-19 at 14.11.51] The cut does apply to all selections, but the pasteboard retains only the first selection for pasting. Here, for example, both alpha and epsilon are deleted from the edit buffer, but only alpha is transferred to the pasteboard. Perhaps that’s by design ?

I had thought that I’d disabled this NSTextView feature. The multiple selection doesn’t match up well with TaskPaper’s internal selection model, which is single. But for your use case it might work?

Edit: Never mind, reading @complexpoint 's post (instead of just looking at pictures as I did at first) explains that while you can make and delete the selection… you can’t successfully copy it.