David:
> > First is clipboarding. I know it's on the list, and I'm sure there are
> > other, more pressing things to do, but it's something I miss sorely.
>
>It's on the list? What list?
Hmm... I could've sworn I saw it in the "What other features can we
expect?" section of the FAQ, but obviously I was wrong. Sorry.
>We've never actually condoned adding
>internal clipboard support to Plucker,
I'm surprised that you consider such basic functionality as clipboarding so
distateful that you think of it as something to be 'condoned'. At this
rate, I'd hesitate to make any more suggestions for fear that you might --
shudder -- 'condemn' them, or even (gulp!) 'execute' them, poor things....
However, emboldened by the words on the "Plucker 1.2 beta testers needed"
page ("If you find [...] things you'd like to see added, please feel free
to join the mailing lists..."), I hereby gather my courage and formally
request the Plucker development team to please consider adding clipboarding
to the Plucker viewer. Here's why:
1. Plucker is about information. Information is made to be used. To be
used, it must be accessible. To be accessible, it cannot reside 'somewhere'
in a large file that contains mostly noise and that should be deleted. It
belongs where it makes sense and where it can be found. The only way to do
that is to be able to isolate it, extract it and insert it somewhere else.
Copy/paste makes sense.
2. You write, explaining why you don't (ahem) "condone" clipboarding:
>most external "hacks" and third-party tools can provide that.
Show me one and I'll give it a thorough workout. The only one I've managed
to find is ClipStringHack; while I admire the effort of the developer,
using it with Plucker is akin to scratching one's left ear with one's right
hand. It cannot copy less than two screenfuls, it sometimes duplicates
lines at the screen boundary, and the text, once pasted, requires paring
down -- a far cry from the, uh, "surgical precision" of highlighting
exactly what you want and copying it.
3. Completely personal and subjective: although Plucker is, IM(not so)HO,
head and shoulders above everything else out there, without a reasonably
useful way of copying information, I may well drop it. I invested time and
effort to get it working for me only because I was under the impression
that clipboarding was a planned enhancement. But if I have to waste my time
jumping through hoops to make use of the information it makes available to
me, I will seriously consider using a lesser, but clipboarding-friendly,
alternative. Over the last few days, I have played with iSilo and was
amazed to find out that it has not one, but FOUR ways of copying
information -- perhaps there's a reason for that....
So -- once again: please consider adding clipboarding to Plucker.
All the best--
Ariel
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