Text Clippings

Highlighting text and dragging it anywhere creates a nice Text Clipping. Great. Except it always adds this totally non-traditional extension ".textClipping" at the end. (Traditional would be a simple three letter extension, like .txt or .rtf, right?) It's a problem because it eats up the very text I want to be able to see.
For example, I created a text clipping of the line "I want to see all of this text." What I get is this: I want to see all of this te.textClipping
I tried TextEdit Help but it does not have anything on the topic of text clippings, not that I can find.
I tried changing my Finder Preferences by unchecking Show all file extensions but that did not help. I only end up with the same truncated line, without the added ".textClipping" Like so: I want to see all of this te.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
nÔÔdle--hëad Per-rrr-plexed

The reason you can +"click on it and edit out the words "textClipping" and even add the actual characters it was obscuring"+ is because you can manually edit the filename. Filenames are limited to 255 characters, so even with the .textClipping extension the filename +could be+ 242 characters long (although the Finder would not display all of that in any case; you'd end up with something like "this file has a really really re...ly long name" displayed in Finder, which limits the displayed portion of the filename to ~39 characters).
The Mac OS is still able to deal with files lacking extensions, for the most part - especially those files the OS creates - .textClipping, pictClipping, etc. Historically, Macs didn't use extensions at all and instead wrote files with two forks, a data fork for the data and a resource fork for the metadata (including the creator application). In fact, the actual contents of that text clipping file reside in the resource fork, not the data fork (which is why if you open the file in anything other than Finder it's empty).
Note that double-clicking it does not open it in TextEdit, it opens in Finder. It's a clipping - did you notice that when you double click it and it "opens" you can't select text within that window? You can copy the whole thing and paste it, or just drop it into another file, but not edit it (unless you use 3rd party software like ClipEdit, which allows you to edit the data stored in the resource fork of the file).
So, once the .textClipping file is created by the OS, you can rename it. But it's the OS that sets the filename to be the first 28 characters of the clipped text. Some Apple developer (or a committee of them, knowing how these things work) decided that was enough to give an idea of what's in the clipping without being excessively long.
So, is there a solution? Of course. But what you're really asking is "is there a solution that you can implement?" and the answer to that, I expect, is no. This is not a user-settable parameter.
You might try submitting feedback to Apple (but since there likely won't be that many users with this request, I wouldn't recommend holding your breath):
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
By the way, your name, I like it. Sounds like a brain-body health spray.
Thanks! Actually, it's not neuro-anato-mist, but neuro-anatomist, as in one who studies the anatomy of the nervous system. But I wouldn't mind a brain/body health spray!

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