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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (Don't have strength to leave) Meyer)
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Subject: Re: to clipboard or not to clipboard
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Date: Sat, 13-Dec-86 03:21:57 EST
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In article <7737@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> eric@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Eric Lavitsky) writes:
>So, sure mg will get along fine without the clipboard - I would
>consider it an extra feature to do when you have nothing else left to
>do with it :-) In the meantime, you can always use an internal mg
>buffer, put what you want into it, and write it to a file and let the
>other applications bother with reading in your text from a regular
>file. And the same goes for anything mg needs to read in... 

Actually, when I get around to adding drag-selecting regions to mg,
I'll probably add "write-region" so you can do "down - move - up" and
type a file name to have the selected text saved to a file. Not much
harder than using the clipboard.

Thanx for the input, though. Maybe I'll ask the X people if they
consider the system shelf (read: clipboard) important.

And I just had a thought (rare moment, that!): how about a utility
that sits on the input stream, watching for certain flavors of mouse
activities to twiddle the stream? Say, left-amiga-mouse up/drag/down
to select stuff, and right-amiga-mouse-click to insert the text into
the input stream? Not sure it's possible, but it'd give me what I miss
most from suntools (the ability to put arbitrary text on the shelf,
then dump it back into another window).