You just shortened this thread by 200 posts. Cut & Paste.
We'll have to come up with another non-election related topic.
Hmmm....
How about: [link|http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.20066.21|Is Cut and paste a Bad Design] at Joel on Software.
That [Jef Raskin] is a crackpot out of touch with reality is clear from the above article where he complains that features like cut and paste don't work, are useless, and contribute to code bloat. His argument is that if you walk away from your computer for an hour after cutting, you might forget you had cut and planned to paste and your work that was cut would be lost forever. I do believe that this has happened to him frequently because he is losing his mind. Like, whatever. Cut and paste to be working for everybody else on the planet. I think it works OK and taking it out would not improve things much.
Cut and paste isn't something I think about much any more. Every editor I've used has had it.
Having more access to the clipboard where things are held transiently is a good idea and would solve his problem of losing track of things. [link|http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/clipbrd/mgclip02.zip|MegaClip] was such a tool on OS/2 (from the readme.txt):
MegaClip is a utility to manage multiple OS/2 PM clipboards. It is inspired in part by the IBM EWS program "ManyClip", as well as by a Windows 3.1 program I used Looong ago (but have forgotten the name of now). MegaClip's key feature over ManyClip is its ability to handle bitmaps and metafiles in addition to text. Other benefits include the ability to view more than one clipboard at a time (multiple windows), to view details about the clip (date, time, size, etc), and to 'hold' one clip in the system clipboard -- even while copying other clips. Clips may be stored within the main program window or placed directly on the desktop and it is possible to turn off 'Auto-Retrieve' so that only desired clips are retained. These features are briefly explained below.
I don't think Cut & Paste is the issue. You?
Cheers,
Scott.
