john.russell@canremote.uucp (JOHN RUSSELL) (10/03/89)
jeh@elmgate.UUCP (Ed J Hanway CUST) writes: You can presently recall previous command lines with the arrow keys, but what's missing is the ability to, say, get a directory, grab a name out of the listing and stuff it into a new command line. This is exactly one of the features of TSnip, a mouse cut/paste program by me. As a plus, the window you take the text from doesn't have to be the same one you paste to. Although a handler that did this would be nice (it could be faster, for one thing), I don't think it would be flexible enough to be more useful than TSnip in conjunction with something like Conman. Peter Schachte writes: SNIPIT and TSNIP work now, only they don't use the one-step approach. I don't see why they couldn't work this way. Maybe one of the authors could comment? Well, as I said above, the ability to paste to any window is desirable. No reason though why another option couldn't be "paste immediate", with sub- options of "to same window as text was snipped from" and "to some designated target window, regardless of source". I'm not currently writing for distribution (as an employment condition) and I haven't found much time to program the last few months, aside from mods to TSnip for my own use. So, there's no practical reason why it couldn't be done, but it isn't likely that it will be for TSnip. Come to think of it though, the problem of remembering exactly what was going to happen to the text might make such a feature undesirable from a usability standpoint. Recall that TSnip allows you to cancel a keyboard paste with ESC if you accidentally snip "format drive dh0: name oops" :-). John --- * Via ProDoor 3.1aR