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From: smethers@psu-cs.UUCP (Paul Smethers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Recommendation for a new "Paste" feature on ALL Mac Software
Message-ID: <437@psu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 07:31:05 EST
Article-I.D.: psu-cs.437
Posted: Thu Oct 29 07:31:05 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Nov-87 05:09:56 EST
References: <560@atux01.UUCP> <6921@prls.UUCP>
Reply-To: smethers@psu-cs.UUCP (Paul Smethers)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR
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In article <6921@prls.UUCP> gardner@prls.UUCP (Robert Gardner) writes:
>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.

This sounds like a great idea!  How about having an hierarchical menu for
the paste commands that leads to the levels of clipboards (maybe with some
information about the item as well).  There can be a control panel option
for setting the preferred nesting of clipboards, and the application will
support as many as memory (or disk space) permits.

A similar implementation could be done for nested UNDO's.  Since the entry
level macintosh is now a megabyte, it is time we start getting applications
that can use some of that extra memeory for things other than data
(the old clipboard implementation reeks of the 128K macintosh).

Paul Smethers