Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!leah!wfh58 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 Lines: 54 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: -------------- .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 -------------- . .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 -------------- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ William F. Hammond Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics 518-442-4625 SUNYA wfh58@leah.albany.edu Albany, NY 12222 -------------------------------------------------------------------------