Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!leah!wfh58 From: wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CygnusEdPro Bug --> NO CLIPBOARD SUPPORT Summary: Then you don't need multi-windowing Message-ID: <2057@leah.Albany.Edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 15:20:25 GMT References: <8909250219.AA13930@jade.berkeley.edu> <899@madnix.UUCP> <1627@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center Lines: 26 In article <1627@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>, swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan) writes: > Since there had been some gripes and discussions about the lack of clipboard > use, . . . > . . . There is NONONO excuse for this. > It's time we let developers know what has been mulling down underneath for so > long, hoping to let certain failings go un-noticed, just so the Amiga would > survive. Well, it's time to come out of the closet and say it- > > IF IT DOESN'T SUPPORT CLIPBOARD BUT SHOULD- _I WON'T BUY IT_!! > 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. Note that under WorkBench 1.3 the clips don't have to be put in devs:clipboards. Perhaps the fact that this was true in the past explains why some developers opted away from the clipboard facility. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ William F. Hammond Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics 518-442-4625 SUNYA wfh58@leah.albany.edu Albany, NY 12222 -------------------------------------------------------------------------