Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!udel!mmdf 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 Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 30 Received: from GEORG.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM by ALAN.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM via CHAOS with CHAOS-MAIL id 41539; Fri 29-Sep-89 12:19:57 PDT Date: Fri, 29 Sep 89 12:19 PDT From: Montgomery KosmaSubject: 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