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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
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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.

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