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From: jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CygnusEdPro Bug --> NO CLIPBOARD SUPPORT
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Date: 5 Oct 89 05:30:45 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.

  Well, I'm also very vocal about Amiga's lack of clipboard support.
I also work with Mac (only when I have to!) and Suns, and I often get
very frustrated when I go back to the Amiga and can't to/from every
window in sight! There is just no good excuse for this on a
multitasking machine!

   However, the clipboard is no substitute for multiple windows!
Certainly there are times when this is true, but not always. I really
like the emacs model, where you can have multiple windows and multiple
buffers, not all of which may be showing. I also like being able to
open side-by-side windows in emacs (gnuemacs anyway). Occaisionally this
is very useful. 

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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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  Jim