Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a218 From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CygnusEdPro Bug --> NO CLIPBOARD SUPPORT Message-ID: <547@mindlink.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 89 20:32:55 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada Lines: 55 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. 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? To me, one of the sublime joys of CygnusEd is being able to have multiple windows open at once. Why should I have to close one document in order to paste text into another? If I want to return to my original document I don't want to have to re-read it, particularly if it's large. ESPECIALLY if it lives on a floppy disk. Here are some other good reasons for multiple editor windows: - taking multiple clips from a document without re-reading - cutting and pasting into multiple documents - visually comparing two documents - viewing or editing two widely separated portions of the same document (e.g. for building a summary or table of contents) Note that I do most of the above every day. I access Usenet through a local BBS and do an ASCII capture, since I don't have any sort of a "read news" facility, or even Unix for that matter. CED is great for snipping out various bits and building other files like my .signature collection. Right now I have the original message in one window as I compose this reply in another. I have enough memory not to worry about the size of CygnusEd, and it's very fast despite its size. Considering that I routinely boil down 400K text files held in VD0: it's hardly an issue anyway. If I have a particularly heavy edit to do on the MS-DOS side of my bridge board, I ship the file over to the Amiga side so I can use CygnusEd - it's that much nicer than anything I have for MS-DOS. I don't want this to sound like a flame, but I just couldn't let such remarks go unchallenged. The clipboard is one of the nicest features of the Mac, and should be adopted on the Amiga - but let's not adopt the Mac's limitations as part of the package. It might be possible to do wonderful things using just a clipboard and no multiple windows, but it would be so much nicer to have both. Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP Not representing ASDG or CygnusSoft, just a satisfied user. "Necessity is the mother of the re-invented wheel."