November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
11h 59m
English
| Tip 216 | Turn Off Drag and Drop |
If you find you often accidentally drag and drop text within applications (which is to say, you accidentally select some text and then accidentally drag and drop it to a new location—something especially easy to do with a trackpad), you can turn it off with a secret setting.
To turn it off for all apps, type the following into a Terminal window (open Finder, select the Applications list, and then in the list of applications double-click Terminal within the Utilities folder):
| | defaults write -g NSDragAndDropTextDelay -int -1 |
Then log out and back in again.
To reactivate for all apps, type the following into a Terminal window:
| | defaults delete -g NSDragAndDropTextDelay |
To deactivate it for a particular app, first ...
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