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From: gardner@prls.UUCP (Robert Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Recommendation for a new "Paste" feature on ALL Mac Software
Message-ID: <6921@prls.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 14:07:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 23 14:07:44 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 17:03:32 EST
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Reply-To: gardner@prls.UUCP (Robert Gardner)
Organization: Philips Research Labs, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <560@atux01.UUCP> jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore) writes:
>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

Not a bad idea, but I'd rather (also like to) see a standard way of having
applications accumulate Copies to the clipboard. If I copy the words
'this text' and then (perhaps) use option-copy to copy the words ' is nice'
then the clipboard should contain 'this text is nice'. Some applications
do this -- I'd just like to see some standard guidelines for developers
to follow.

I've also found myself on several occasions wishing I had multiple
clipboards, or the ability to "stack" Copy commands. I'll cut or copy
something and then before I can paste it I find I want to do some
more rearranging first, but can't because I'll lose the clipboard contents.
It seems that some contortion-copy could mean "push selection onto
clipboard" and contortion-paste could mean "pop most recent push into
document (and remove it from clipboard)". This could cause problems
with application-to-application communication, however, unless only the
most recent copy (for instance) was saved to the "real" clipboard.

I think that clipboard operations need some refinement, but of course,
without user-interface guidelines and consensus developers will all do
things differently (or not at all) and no one will really benefit.

Robert Gardner