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From: "kosma@ALAN.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM"@alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CygnusEdPro Bug --> NO CLIPBOARD SUPPORT
Message-ID: <632@nigel.udel.EDU>
Date: 3 Oct 89 18:17:59 GMT
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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 89 12:19 PDT
From: Montgomery Kosma 
Subject: Re: CygnusEdPro Bug --> NO CLIPBOARD SUPPORT 
To: "eagle::amiga-relay%udel.edu"@KAHUNA.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM
In-Reply-To: Your message of 29 Sep 89 12:08 PDT
Message-ID: <19890929191951.0.KOSMA@GEORG.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM>

    I agree.  Please note that an editor that uses the clipboard does not
    need to have a multi-windowing facility (i.e., does not need to reinvent
    the wheel).  You can open a document, take a clip, close that document,
    and go to another to insert the clip.  Editors that eliminate unnecessary
    features are smaller.

perhaps you haven't fully explored the power of modern text editing
facilities, but there are MANY MANY more benefits of multiple windowing
(and having multiple files loaded simultaneously) than simple
cut-and-paste.  For example, reading two (or more) files simultaneously,
reading different parts of one file simultaneously, allowing source
compare functionality, as well as making the cut-and-paste jobs easier
(and easier to plan too...if you're only looking at one document at a
time it can be tougher to figure out what you need to pull out of one
and paste into the other).

so, anyway, who's going to port the full gnuemacs to the amiga?  ;-).



monty
kosma@alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com