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From: wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: The clipboard
Keywords: Multiple windows
Message-ID: <2064@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 2 Oct 89 18:28:27 GMT
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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In a reply posting last week I wrote to agree with an earlier poster (whose
posting I've lost) that document preparation programs like editors and
word processors should make use of the Amiga's clipboard device.  I said:

.>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.

There were two reply postings:
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.From: cna@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Na Choon Piaw)
.Date: 29 Sep 89 19:54:02 GMT
.        . . .
.Not true.  I find that most of the time, I use multiple windows in [ ] to
.read different parts of the same part, or even read multiple files side by
.side.  (On the same screen) Besides, have you noticed that [ ] stores the
."cut" buffer between files?  That means you can open a document, take that
.clip you want, close that document, and go to the one you want to add that
.clip.
.        . . .
.Na Choon Piaw  .cna@cory.berkeley.edu  .piaw@ocf.berkeley.edu
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.From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
.Date: 28 Sep 89 20:32:55 GMT
.
.     I agree that clipboard support is a Good Thing, if only to
.shut up the Mac enthusiasts out there.  Having said that, though...
.
.     HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY SAY THAT MULTI-WINDOWING IS UNNECESSARY?
.   . . .
.
.Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
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First, let me say that my remarks were not intended to be directed at
any particular program.  (Actually, I was thinking about a version of
"emacs" that is similar to the emacs on the local mainframe.)

I am certainly not opposed to having multiple windows and multiple
documents open at one time. (Where I said "multi-windowing", I should have
said "multi-document", and where I said "not necessary", I meant
"not necessary for quick cutting and pasting".)  My point was that a small
simple editor capable of dealing with only one document at a time is fully
functional on the Amiga if it uses the clipboard device since the Amiga itself
enables one to open and view multiple documents via the system-provided
multi-tasking and multi-windowing.

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