copy

This one will benefit maybe one person out there…ever.

If you want to copy a color you are hovering over in xScope. Hover over the color you want and hit:

[pastacode lang=”less” manual=”ctrl%20%2B%20cmd%20%2B%20optn%20%2B%20c” message=”” highlight=”” provider=”manual”/]

This will allow you to copy the color that you were hovering over And then you can use it paste in other applications.

NOTE: This site is all about helpful hints tricks and tips. The posts lately have been short on purpose. For one, I’m busy AF and don’t have the time to post anything of great detail. Additionally, I believe in simplicity. You can visit, find something helpful and move on with your life.

As always I appreciate your feedback, please leave a comment if you feel I’m leading people down a less than idea path or just comment because you like talking IDC.

If you use webstorm you’ve probably run into this issue before. It use to happen more in past versions when I would add non-UTF-8 characters to my files. Basically, webstorm would output the wrong file encoding.

To get around this you really only have one option. To re-encode your file content and filter it yourself. If you simply copy the wrongly encoded file output and try to paste that into a UTF-8 file, it will re-encode and you end up back where you started.

You have to replace the file:

[pastacode lang=”bash” manual=”iconv%20-f%20UTF-16%20-t%20UTF-8%20%5Bpath%2Fto%2Ffile%5D” message=”” highlight=”” provider=”manual”/]

Blam.

If that doesn’t work, you can do the step above to sanitize, then copy the content and make a new file (UTF-8) and paste.

xScope command to copy colors

WebStorm Encoded my HTML File as UTF-16BE