Add URL link...from keyboard

[tshanno]

@KB

Hi,
I’d be grateful if you could try downloading 2.5.5 from the Beta Testing section of the forum and deleting the shortcut for “Link…” from your system preferences - 2.5.5 should work with just the shortcut added to “Add Link…” and “Edit Link…”

Hi, Keith.

Ordinarily I would be game to do this but unfortunately I’m a Mac App Store customer (it just seemed more convenient). I note in the beta section that its not recommended that those like me download it.

Tom S.

[KB]

Hi Tom,

Ah, okay. Actually as of 2.0.6 it won’t make any difference - Mac App Store customers will be able to download betas too, because 2.0.6 will store your receipt in a special folder that the regular version will be able to check, but until 2.0.6 hits the Mac App Store it would be awkward to get it working.

Thanks,
Keith

[dberreby]

@KB

“Add Link…” can become “Edit Link…” - it’s contextual (just when it changes title is handled by OS X, a change Apple made in Snow Leopard, and it can be pretty funky, saying “Edit Link…” when there is no link to edit). So, you’ll need to add cmd-L as a keyboard shortcut to “Edit Link…” as well as to “Add Link…”.

Hope that helps,
Keith

Thanks, Keith. I’ve had this same problem and was just living with it. Nice to have the answer.

all best
David

[michiel]

Would it be possible to set a sticky preference in the <Add Link…> box to ? I am usually copy-pasting URLs from my browser into Scrivener, therefore having to change the default tick box to each time I add a URL is not really handy.

[KB]

You don’t need to do that - if there is already an “http://” at the start of the pasted-in URL, Scrivener won’t add it again.

[dberreby]

@dberreby

@KB

“Add Link…” can become “Edit Link…” - it’s contextual (just when it changes title is handled by OS X, a change Apple made in Snow Leopard, and it can be pretty funky, saying “Edit Link…” when there is no link to edit). So, you’ll need to add cmd-L as a keyboard shortcut to “Edit Link…” as well as to “Add Link…”.

Hope that helps,
Keith

Been meaning to come back to this thread to report that this doesn’t work, at least not for me. Though I have carefully made Command-K (in my case) into the shortcut for both Add Link… AND Edit Link… (while of course assigning the old command-K function to another shortcut), nonetheless when I start in a project, I must first “baptize” the function by clicking on the Edit menu, otherwise the shortcut will not do anything. After that first-time menu click, though, the shortcut works fine. As before. It’s not a big deal, of course. And maybe this weirdness will go away in Lion. So: Just FYI.

Cheers
David

[KB]

And you’re using the beta version, not 2.0.5, as explained above?

[dberreby]

Oops, sorry. I didn’t grasp that that distinction was crucial. I’m on 2.5, will now switch and report back.

Apologetically
David

[dberreby]

@dberreby

Oops, sorry. I didn’t grasp that that distinction was crucial. I’m on 2.5, will now switch and report back.

Apologetically
David

Should have said I WAS on 2.0.5.0, of course. I am now, as instructed, on 2.0.5.5. And the problem is gone. Thanks Keith, as ever.

David