On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Aug 2008, at 16:50, Eben Eliason wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> 7 - Is cut supported? How do you remove things from the clipboard? >>> How >>> many items can it hold? >> >> Cut is definitely supported, and will remain mapped to the Ctrl-X >> shortcut familiar to many, however it will not retain the same name. >> Instead, we've applied the notion of "cut" as "copy and erase", which >> makes clear that the result of the action is twofold: first it >> performs a copy action, and second it erases the item selected. Since >> these semantics make "cut" an alternate form of the copy action, "copy >> and erase" will actually appear as a secondary option in the palette >> for the "copy" button itself. > > Random though; could there also be potential for a "paste and erase"?
This is already included in the specification, right down to the ALT key as a modifier for accessing the functionality. ;) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Specifications/Clipboard#Pasting It's currently discussed as "paste and remove", but you are correct in identifying the correlation between this action and "copy and erase"; I think "paste and erase" is the correct terminology for the feature. - Eben > The intention being I could be reading a web article, perform several > copy actions of separate text paragraphs I want to quote, then switch > to write and perform several "paste and erase" actions to pop the > clippings off the stack. Basically an easy way of unwinding the > clipboard stack into another Activity. This could also go hand in hand > with a potential keyboard modifier (Alt?) to allow a drag and erase of > an clipping out of the clipboard in one step** > > **usually you only paste an item once, so this extra function would > reduce the management steps a kid needs to do to erase each used > clipping. > > --Gary > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar