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From: cna@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Na Choon Piaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CygnusEdPro Bug --> NO CLIPBOARD SUPPORT
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Date: 29 Sep 89 19:54:02 GMT
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In article <2057@leah.Albany.Edu> wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond) writes:
>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.

Not true.  I find that most of the time, I use multiple windows in CED 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 CED 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.

Agreed, editors that eliminate unnecessary features are smaller, but even
so, CED is as fast as I want it to be.  (I'd like it to have its own macro
language, though --- a fully "low" level one, so that I can program things
like show-match-mode in EMACS and add stuff like that.  ARexx, good as it
is, just doesn't cut it for stuff like that.  Not LISP, though..  Something
like forth, which is small, would be nice and fast....)

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>William F. Hammond                   Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics
>518-442-4625                         SUNYA
>wfh58@leah.albany.edu                Albany, NY 12222
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Just my opinion.
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