Add Ability to Cut & Paste Tweet Text

For a long while, I have thought Nambu's tweets do not allow text selection; actually, they do, although unlucky colour scheme implementation hides that fact pretty well. However, even with selection functional, default text actions usually provided by the context menu of Cocoa applications are sorely missing, namely Search with Google, Look up in Dictionary, or the ability to copy links; under Snow Leopard, this also precludes contextual service display, which is a pity.

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Adding default OS X text functions to tweets.

I'm not 100% sure that we are talking about the same thing. What I *want* to do is to be able to swipe the text from a tweet already posted and command-c to copy it and then command-v to paste it somewhere else (another app). I am still unable to do this. I know it's technically possible because the the program I use (SY*****X) allows that no problems.

I'm with Rick. Want to be able to copy paste as he describes.

@Rick we are not, exactly, but the admins seem to think so, hence they merged our separate topics. Let's hope they will fix both together, too.

In 1.9.1.7b (440) the behavior has gotten worse. It used to be that you could select text with the mouse (though the selection was either invisible or barely visible) and then drag the selected text to another window. Now you can't even do that.

Copy and paste is basic Mac functionality and this is a really serious problem.

This. Is. Huge.

Not solved on 1.9.2, or am I doing something wrong?

This was in the problem category, and turned into an idea. It is a problem, for 1.2 allowed you to do so (copy+paste). May look minor, but when you want to share a link from somebody's tweet to somewhere else (i.e. a blog, a IM message or something, you have to make some workarounds, like choosing RT the message and copping from your unsent tweet. Still the only reason I haven't dropped the 1.2 for the 1.9.x for once and for all, since on every other aspects the beta is way better, but I do lots of copy pasting.

Eric, I'd say it's a very necessary feature. :)

If I haven't said it yet, let me just say now that I greatly appreciate being a part of the Nambu beta, and it's been a very enlightening process. Helping make the product better is its own reward.

Keep on keepin on. :)

It frequently frustrates me that I can't copy text from tweets. I work around this by using re-tweet, then copy, which is a PITA, but there's a problem- I can't re-tweet my own tweets!

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I'd love to have copy/paste for tweets!.

At first I'd say "why would I need to copy+paste something I already said?".
Then I saw why this is one of the best points (this is why I marked as that.
Say you tweet a link on a context. Say you want to DM this link on a totally different context to someone else. You'll have to go to the page, copy, re-shorten the link, and send the DM saying whatever you were going to say that was different from your original tweet.

Having complete and total access to our 140 characters of old-school command-line twitter text is required. All the bells and whistles in the world wont cover for lacking in the text editing department.

Copy/paste should have been standard from the get go! What if I want to copy and paste into my email or another app? There's no way to do that clearly right now! Blatant oversite, otherwise, I like the app over Tweetie

I'm nearly ready to switch to Socialite over this issue. I can't believe this wasn't coded in from the start and that it hasn't been fixed yet. Shouldn't any text handling automatically include select, copy and paste? This isn't Flash and Nambu isn't an AIR app; this kind of system integration is why we chose Nambu over an AIR app in the first place.

This is an important feature for me too. I keep finding myself going back to twitter.com to copy and paste tweets and bit.ly links for various purposes - IM, email, and blog posts.

Yaaay!

This is great (update)! Only issue I'm having is that it keeps thinking it has an update to do, as about still shows it as the old version.

YAY! Thank you!

thanks for the good news, eric! :)