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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
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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.

     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."