Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Canonical list Message-ID: <1230@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 10 Mar 90 21:11:22 GMT Lines: 41 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <861@jc3b21.UUCP>, fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) writes: >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. > [ more pro-Snap stuff deleted ...] I agree, wholeheartedly and unreservedly. Snap (and prior to that, Snipit), are useful beyond measure. As Fabbian points out, you can grab filenames for other commands, text to insert into editors, and so on. My favourite use is as an online tool. Forget to have capture on? No problem, Snap it and paste it somewhere. Want to fill in something in a message? Snap it and paste it into your terminal window. No fuss, no muss, and it's accurate, withiout having to rely on your memory to get some fragment of code exactly right or mess with an editor to make a file with just what you want in it. Got screens that have text that can't be captured into a file? Snap will do it, and if for some reason it won't Snap text from that screen, Snap it as graphics, and you can usually Snap the text from the captured image. Handy? Useful? I have purposely understated the case. Hmm.. and I have all these Ginsu knives too.... :-) -larry -- Entomology bugs me. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+