increasing speed of deleting text?

[bill4588]

I switched to Mac about a month or so ago and there has been one thing about OS X that bugs me and I'm wondering if it can be fixed. Whenever I'm typing something and I have to delete a whole lot of text, it seems to take forever because I'm so used to windows deleting things so fast. Is there any way that I can speed up the deleting process (other than having to highlight what i want to delete, because that's a pain to do on my macbook with the track pad as I do not use a mouse).

 

[yellow]

Please provide more info.. are you talking about deleting text in Word? TextEdit? BBEdit? OpenOffice?

If it's Word, then it's a annoying problem inherint in Word, and not Mac OS X.

 

[Makosuke]

Ignoring Word's general stupidity, if you haven't done this already, go into the "Keyboard & Mouse" Preference Pane, and under the Keyboard tab turn "Key Repeat Rate" all the way up. That's about the only control you have over the speed of how fast holding down the delete key eats stuff to the left of the cursor.

 

[bill4588]

Ignoring Word's general stupidity, if you haven't done this already, go into the "Keyboard & Mouse" Preference Pane, and under the Keyboard tab turn "Key Repeat Rate" all the way up. That's about the only control you have over the speed of how fast holding down the delete key eats stuff to the left of the cursor.

that did it! thanks! much better!

 

[840quadra]

You can also hold down the shift key while you hi-light text by using the mouse, and or using the cursor to go up down left or right. The latter works well for large blocks of text when they end up being more then one line long.