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From: jlc@atux01.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Recommendation for a new "Paste" feature on ALL Mac Software
Message-ID: <560@atux01.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 09:45:20 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 09:45:20 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Oct-87 11:07:53 EDT
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OK, Apple developers (and employees) on the net, here is my suggestion for a
VERY useful feature for ANY software that uses Clipboard "Cut & Paste" features
(which means ALL Mac programs).

In any new or upgraded software, the Paste feature should contain the
feature of doing MULTIPLE pastes of whatever is on the Clipboard.  This could
be done by writing the code so that when a user pulls down the edit menu and
holds down a number key while selecting paste, the program will know that the
user wants X number of copies of the item on the clipboard to be pasted into the
document.  

For example, I'm in Superpaint and I have just copied a circle to the clipboard.
I go to the edit menu and select "paste."  Before I release the paste selection,
I press the number "3" key, THEN I release the mouse button.  I then have
appear on the screen THREE circles!

This could be a REAL time saving (and a nice upgrade) feature!

So what do you think, people?


						Jim Collymore