On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:34:08 -0500, P S wrote: > > > >Yes, the Windows clipboard has multiple layers--that's why you can paste > >HTML into Word and get formatted text, or into KEDIT and get just text. I > >think of it like planes: there's the text plane, and the text formatting > >plane, and the graphics plane...it's not an exact model, but it helps me > >visualize it at least. I often paste things into KEDIT and > <cntrl>A<cntrl>C > >immediately back to "clean" the extra planes off for pasting elsewhere. > > > That being the case, Paste ought to be a hierarchic menu, > such as: > > Paste-->+--> Plain text > | > +--> Rich text > | > +--> Image > | > +--> Audio > | > +--> etc. > > ... with layers outside the capability of the application > dimmed. > Naw, that'd be too flexible :-) Srsly, sure would be nice!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
