Great article. I didn't know that kill-yank worked outside of the Terminal ...
"There’s no way to edit a text clipping."
Not entirely true. ClipEdit by Everyday Software (http://www.everydaysoftware.net/clipedit/) can edit and style text and crop and zoom picture clippings. The application hasn't been updated since 2006, but it still works for me on Mavericks. It's free (with a suggested $5 donation), so it might be worth a test install.
textClippings are a bit strange: they exist only in the Resource fork of the .textClipping file; the data fork is empty.
You can access the clipping from the command line:
$ DeRez {path}/{filename}.textClipping
Will return the resource fork, with multiple versions of the clipping (RTF, UTF8, TEXT, HTML, etc.), depending on the styling of the original selection.
$ ls -l {path}/{name}.textClipping/..namedfork/rsrc
Returns the long listing of the resource fork, including size.
"There’s no way to edit a text clipping."
Not entirely true. ClipEdit by Everyday Software (http://www.everydaysoftware.net/clipedit/) can edit and style text and crop and zoom picture clippings. The application hasn't been updated since 2006, but it still works for me on Mavericks. It's free (with a suggested $5 donation), so it might be worth a test install.
textClippings are a bit strange: they exist only in the Resource fork of the .textClipping file; the data fork is empty.
You can access the clipping from the command line:
$ DeRez {path}/{filename}.textClipping
Will return the resource fork, with multiple versions of the clipping (RTF, UTF8, TEXT, HTML, etc.), depending on the styling of the original selection.
$ ls -l {path}/{name}.textClipping/..namedfork/rsrc
Returns the long listing of the resource fork, including size.