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From: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Canonical list
Message-ID: <861@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 90 03:10:27 GMT
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From article <90068.091247UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>, by UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer):
> In article <1910@clyde.concordia.ca>, stefan@sherlock.cs.concordia.ca (BUCHHOLZ
> stefan) says:
>>
>>    2. Snap: cut and paste ANY stype font from ANY window on ANY screen.
>>Beautiful, transparent, easy...
> 
> 
> I've got it, but rarely have a use for it.  In fact, I've never used it since
> I installed it.  I vote NO for snap as canonical USEFUL software.  Neat, yes.

     Snap is really handy if you work with text a lot.  Assume you're
working from the CLI.  You want to delete a number of files from a
directory whose contents you've just displayed.  First choice, obviously,
is to construct a pattern that will hit just the files you want to delete.
Unfortunately, these files don't have a common pattern.  Next step is to
use snap to pick up the file names from the DIR display and put them on the
command line.

     Or maybe you're working on a program.  You want to copy a structure
definition from one of the include files.  More lets you read the include
file easily.  You find the structure definition.  Use Snap to frame it,
then insert it into the source file you are working on with your text
editor.

     Snap (or somethine that does the same thing) should be included in
version 1.4 of Workbench.  It's really a super program.

     Snap does have some bugs that need to be worked out.  It doesn't
always insert a lot of text properly.  Snapping several graphic images in a
row has crashed my system repeatedly.  But with those problems corrected it
really should be part of the OS.

--Fabbian Dufoe
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