Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!eris!mwm From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (Don't have strength to leave) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: to clipboard or not to clipboard Message-ID: <1923@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Sat, 13-Dec-86 03:21:57 EST Article-I.D.: jade.1923 Posted: Sat Dec 13 03:21:57 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 21:56:02 EST References: <1878@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <7737@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (Don't have strength to leave) Meyer) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 25 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).